Singleness : self-individuation and its rejection in the scholastic debate on principles of individuation
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Singleness : self-individuation and its rejection in the scholastic debate on principles of individuation
（Philosophische Analyse = Philosophical analysis / herausgegeben von Herbert Hochberg ... [et al.], Bd. 70 . Books edited by the International Center for Formal Ontology）
De Gruyter, c2018
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Pojedynczość : spór o zasadę indywiduacji w scholastyce
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Revised translation of: Pojedynczość : spór o zasadę indywiduacji w scholastyce. Wrocław, 2012
First published in hardback, 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The book is a systematic study of the issue of self-individuation in the scholastic debate on principles of individuation (principia individuationis).
The point of departure is a general formulation of the problem of individuation acceptable for all the participants of the scholastic debate: a principle of individuation of x is what makes x individual (in various possible senses of 'making something individual'). The book argues against a prima facie plausible view that everything that is individual is individual by itself and not by anything distinct from it (Strong Self-Individuation Thesis). The keynote topic of the book is a detailed analysis of the two competing ways of rejecting the Strong Self-Individuation Thesis: the Scotistic and the Thomistic one. The book defends the latter one, discussing a number of issues concerning substantial and accidental forms, essences, properties, instantiation, the Thomistic notion of materia signata, Frege's Begriff-Gegenstand distinction, and Geach's form-function analogy developed in his writings on Aquinas.
In the context of both the scholastic and contemporary metaphysics, the book offers a framework for dealing with issues of individuality and defends a Thomistic theory of individuation.
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