How to ground (higher-order) identities.
The purity principle requires that identity truths such as "Hesperus is identical to Phosphorus" are grounded. This argument from purity for the groundedness of identity truths for first-order entities can be naturally generalized to higher-order identities like "to be a vixen is to be a female fox....
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 183; no. 9; pp. 2717 - 2747 |
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Sep2026
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