The identity of indiscernibles is an ontological principle that states that there cannot be separate objects or entities that have all their properties...
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the identity of indiscernibles was one of the laws of thought of Gottfried Leibniz. In some contexts one considers the more general notion of order-indiscernibles...
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identity gives rise to many philosophical problems, including the identity of indiscernibles (if x and y share all their properties, are they one and the same...
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Substance theory (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
. The indiscernibles argument then asserts that the identity of indiscernibles is violated, for example, by identical sheets of paper. All of their qualitative...
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the so-called identity of indiscernibles attributed to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and other "logical truths". The expression "laws of thought" gained...
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Absolute value (redirect from Modulus of complex number)
non-negativity, identity of indiscernibles, symmetry and the triangle inequality given above, can be seen to motivate the more general notion of a distance...
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product rule General Leibniz rule, a generalization of the product rule Identity of indiscernibles Leibniz (disambiguation) Leibniz's rule (disambiguation)...
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task of learning a distance function over objects. A metric or distance function has to obey four axioms: non-negativity, identity of indiscernibles, symmetry...
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philosophical problem Doctrine of internal relations Emergent properties Grelling–Nelson paradox Identity of indiscernibles (or "Leibniz's law") Intension...
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lack one or more properties of proper metrics. For example, pseudometrics violate property (2), identity of indiscernibles; quasimetrics violate property...
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