It simply does not add up: Trouble with overall similarity

Michael Morreau

It simply does not add up: Trouble with overall similarity

Journal of Philosophy 107 (9):469-490 (2010)

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Abstract

Comparative overall similarity lies at the basis of a lot of recent metaphysics and epistemology. It is a poor foundation. Overall similarity is supposed to be an aggregate of similarities and differences in various respects. But there is no good way of combining them all.

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Metaphysics Epistemology Conditionals Counterparts Social Choice Arrow's theorem

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Counterpart Theory in Metaphysics

Persistence in Metaphysics

Possible-World Theories of Counterfactuals in Philosophy of Language

Three- and Four-Dimensionalism in Metaphysics

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10.5840/jphil2010107931

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