“When I was eleven or twelve years old, I became for a while fixated on the question whether there could be two 'identical' stones. This is, of course, the question whether the principle of identity of indiscernibles is true and, as I formulated it then, I was bound to fall into confusion about it.” YearsTwoFallCoursesPrinciplesIdentityStonesBoundsConfusionTwelveIdenticalEleven Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space, identity, resemblance, substance, property, fact, event, composition, possibility, etc., are the most fundamental concepts. Thus metaphysics is the most fundamental theoretical discipline.” FactsRealitySpaceStudyEventsIdentityPossibilityDisciplineConceptsFundamentalsStructurePropertySubstanceEtcCompositionMetaphysicsTheoreticalResemblance Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle of identity of indiscernibles and one the problems to which least attention has been paid of.” Has BeensProblemAttentionPrinciplesIdentityPaidPropertyHardest Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than one instance; so there can be numerically distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false.” PrinciplesIdentityInstanceBundles Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of indiscernibles, I have thereby defended the bundle theory from a traditional objection to it.” WayDoePrinciplesIdentityTheoryCommittedArguingTraditionalObjectionsBundles Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
