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This paper is an investigation of the general logic of "identifications", claims such as 'To be a vixen is to be a female fox', 'To be human is to be a rational animal', and 'To be just is to help one's friends and harm one's enemies', many of which are of great importance to philosophers. I advocate understanding such claims as expressing higher-order identity, and discuss a variety of different general laws which they might be thought to obey. [New version: Nov. 4th, 2016]To Be F Is To Be GPhilosophical Perspectives 30 (1): 39-134. 2016.
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| Philosophy of Mind |
| Metaphysics |
| Formulating Physicalism |
| Grounding |
| Dualism about Consciousness |
| Reasons, Misc |
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