迪翁和席恩之谜解开了

IF 0.5 4区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHIA Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI:10.1007/s11406-023-00708-y

H. E. Baber

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迪翁是一个人，左脚是他的左脚，而席恩是左脚的补充，是迪翁的一部分。左脚 "被消灭了，而 "迪翁 "则没有左脚地活了下来。左脚被消灭后，如果席恩幸存下来，他将与迪翁占据同一区域。我建议将这一情景理解为一种融合情况，即最初相互重叠但又截然不同的迪翁和西恩在左撇子被消灭后变得相同，并提出一种对专名的解释，使我们可以说迪翁和西恩 "变得相同"，而不必拘泥于偶发性同一性或其他有争议的形而上学理论。所提出的解决方案采用了沃尔夫冈-施瓦茨（Wolfgang Schwarz）为解决 "偶发性同一性悖论 "而开发的语义学，该悖论是由裂变的谜题案例提出的，用以解决迪昂和席恩这个 "身体减去谜题 "的问题。

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The Puzzle of Dion and Theon Solved

Dion is a human person, Lefty is his left foot, and Theon is Lefty-Complement, a proper part of Dion. Lefty is annihilated and Dion survives left-footless. After Lefty’s annihilation Theon, if he survives, occupies the same region as Dion. I suggest that this scenario be understood as a fusion case in which Dion and Theon, initially overlapping but distinct, are identical after Lefty’s annihilation and propose an account of proper names that allows us to say that Dion and Theon have ‘become identical’ without commitment to occasional identity or other controversial metaphysical doctrines. The proposed solution employs the semantics developed by Wolfgang Schwarz to address the ‘paradox of occasional identity’, posed by puzzle cases of fission, to deal with the problem of Dion and Theon, a body-minus puzzle.

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