Inference and identity

Mind and Language 39 (3):445-452 (2024)
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Abstract

I argue that beliefs about the identity or distinctness of objects are necessary to explain some normal inferential transitions between thoughts in humans. Worries about vicious regress are not powerful enough to dismantle such an argument. As an upshot, the idea that thinkers “trade on” identity without any corresponding belief remains somewhat mysterious.

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Elmar Unnsteinsson
University College Dublin

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