Individual identity is a central issue of contemporary analytic metaphysics.With the device of the semantics of possible worlds,the urgency of the issue is further exposed,which itself cannot be answered by simple formal methods,and which is really confronted with the question:how to give a criterion to the existence of the individual in complex change.Essentialism seems to be the preferred option,yet the necessary properties based on modal logic fail to truly portray the essence.Out of a cognitive rejection of bare identity,the principle of supervenience promises that individual identity deserves to be grounded in other qualitative properties.In this way,the judgment of identity based on the subject's actuality can construct a dynamic cognitive pathway of"bottom-up",which can provide cognitive references for finding the criterion of individual identity.
NETL
NSTL
万方数据
