Leibniz's Law - The identity of Indiscernibles (Discussed and Debated)

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  • @PhilosophyVibe
    @PhilosophyVibe  2 роки тому

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  • @akashicman2338
    @akashicman2338 2 роки тому +6

    The counter argument of the functionality of haecciaties concerning the ice sculpture wow you have outdone yourselves

  • @NnannaO
    @NnannaO 2 роки тому +16

    My boy on the left went off 🤣🤣. Thank you, guys, for the excellent content.

  • @daviddivad777
    @daviddivad777 2 роки тому +21

    this law is usefull to show in philosophy of mind that mental states (e.g; qualia and intentionality) cannot be reduced to physical things, since we can point out properties that are distinct.

    • @garyhughes1664
      @garyhughes1664 2 роки тому +1

      You make a great point. I was recently reading about the very same, but found the topic (Theories of Mind) very difficult. So hard to follow in some of the textbooks. But thanks, you seem to have clarified it for me in a sentence.

    • @CjqNslXUcM
      @CjqNslXUcM Рік тому

      I don't understand. Can't it be that mental states have intrinsic properties that are identical? The two balls have the same intrinsic properties and they are physical things.

    • @daviddivad777
      @daviddivad777 Рік тому

      @@CjqNslXUcM they occupy different places in space and were created at different time

    • @CjqNslXUcM
      @CjqNslXUcM Рік тому

      @@daviddivad777 Those are extrinsic properties. The two balls also don't share these extrinsic properties, yet they are physical things.

    • @daviddivad777
      @daviddivad777 Рік тому

      @@CjqNslXUcM the law applies to all properties

  • @garyhughes1664
    @garyhughes1664 2 роки тому +3

    What a fascinating topic. These debates are really interesting. Pls keep them coming.

  • @legendsplayground7017
    @legendsplayground7017 7 місяців тому

    I like how one person is being a skeptic while the another is teaching the law. It really does make me understand the law better, love your content, Jesus bless.

  • @joecoolmccall
    @joecoolmccall Рік тому +1

    I really like this channel because the questions and give and take care ones that I am actually thinking but can't put into words yet.

  • @mugsofmirth8101
    @mugsofmirth8101 2 роки тому +3

    The "personal identity" objection raised at 5:45 reminds me of the quote that goes something like "one can never cross the same river twice". I paraphrased the quote and I don't remember who it is attributed to but it seems to me the same general concept. In a sense I suppose it could be said that we are not identical to ourselves from moment to moment since at the microscopic level our bodies undergo constant change - however, this seems to me to be a very pedantic and therefore meaningless point of view, at least when considering shorter time frames where the subject in question doesn't change much. Fascinating discussion though.

    • @garyhughes1664
      @garyhughes1664 2 роки тому

      The topic of Personal Identity is a fascinating one. I don’t no the proper name of the argument, but it argued something along the following: that you are the same person if you could remember who you were in the past (say, ‘time 2’ - t2), assuming you are in t1 now, and that you in the past (t2) could remember who you were further back (t3), and so on. You are the ‘same person’ if you can do this!
      If you can’t remember what you did or thought or ate for lunch two years ago, so long as a ‘previous’ you (t3, t4, t5, etc) can/could remember, then you are all connected and the ‘same person’.
      I’m sure I haven’t got the reasoning exactly right, but it was something like that. I’m sure there are also many arguments against such a theory.

    • @inessabalic8956
      @inessabalic8956 2 роки тому

      Heraclitus, Fragments. you can not step in the same river

  • @joev3512
    @joev3512 2 роки тому +4

    I for the life of me do not understand why your videos donˋt get more views. Anyway, great content as always.

  • @ChateauLonLon
    @ChateauLonLon 2 роки тому +2

    Have you guys ever thought about covering Spinoza? I know his work in Ethics is most popular, but his ideas on divine law and sacredness in the Theological-Political Treatise are super interesting too. Or maybe something about natural knowledge/natural law and the two lights of knowledge (Reason and philosophy for intellectual truths and imagination and the mind's predisposition toward morality for moral truths)?
    Best!

    • @PhilosophyVibe
      @PhilosophyVibe  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you for the recommendation, we will look into this.

  • @raiyanahmadsaadi8220
    @raiyanahmadsaadi8220 Рік тому +1

    9:00 reply to objection -- but bro, why would you apply a concept meant for animate objects to inanimate objects? you yourself know that animate objects and inanimate objects tend to differ from each other.
    But still, the logical objections can be made clear if one delves into the following discussions- # origination or generation of entities/objects and their termination in Leibniz's outlook,
    # Morphology or transformation of objects
    # Identity of an object as it exists by itself and the process of identifying the same object by a different observer/object.
    ^^Clarify the above points and the discussion will become crystal clear.

  • @philosophyforum4668
    @philosophyforum4668 Місяць тому

    In philosophy class, the prof basically denied the identity of Indiscernibles. He was unwilling to consider extrinsic properties. I find that strange. Seems to me Leibniz was correct at least on the surface. I don't find the idea of haecceities convincing, except for people. So I would not maintain the law for objects when they change their properties. I would, however, maintain it for people because people have two things that objects do not have - a consciousness and a first person experience. I don't know if that qualifies as an intrinsic or extrinsic property though - maybe a third kind of property. As far as comparing an object with itself in the past goes, I would point out that if extrinsic properties of an object include every instance of its experience through time, this challenge to the law is no different than comparing an object to itself.

  • @ashokmacho1932
    @ashokmacho1932 2 роки тому

    Pls do come up vth russell incomplete symbol role in his discription

  • @mpen7873
    @mpen7873 2 роки тому +2

    Great debate👍

  • @rk-by1lh
    @rk-by1lh Рік тому

    could you help me explaining the Liberation Praxis, through a video on it

  • @akashicman2338
    @akashicman2338 2 роки тому +1

    interesting dialogue wow

  • @evinnra2779
    @evinnra2779 Рік тому

    Apparently I'm not getting this last point against 'hexeity' or suchness. There are no possible worlds in which my 'suchness' would be totally different (or different in any way whatever ) where my identity would still remain the same. To me it's a nonsensical counter claim. Could someone offer an example to support this claim that the identity of a person or a non living thing remaining intact in a possible world while it is having different intrinsic suchness ?

    • @巫轟
      @巫轟 Рік тому

      It does not have a different intrinsic suchness tho, that is the point.

  • @sdlkfjhasiodf1477
    @sdlkfjhasiodf1477 2 роки тому +2

    the two balls are not identical when we consider atoms, or the bacteria living in them they only appear identical

  • @GeorgeCilley
    @GeorgeCilley 5 місяців тому

    This entire concept falls apart in face of the Uncertainty Principle.

  • @pingu1ful
    @pingu1ful 2 роки тому +2

    keep it up!

  • @nndo6953
    @nndo6953 Рік тому +1

    great!

  • @zogrush
    @zogrush 2 роки тому +1

    Nothing can be identical because you need to be in the exact same space within space to have identical properties

    • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
      @Rspknlikeab0ssxd 2 роки тому

      So do you think my body now is not identical to my body before typing this since my position in space has been continuously altered throughout?

    • @nimrod4996
      @nimrod4996 8 місяців тому

      ​@@Rspknlikeab0ssxdleibniz would say that all future predicates are already included in the complete concept of all substances. So things may seem like they are changing from our limited perspective but if you had complete knowledge of all substance you would see future changes as internal properties which are included in the complete concepts of beings. A true statement is true regardless of the time in which it is said.

    • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
      @Rspknlikeab0ssxd 8 місяців тому

      @@nimrod4996 I don't really care what Leibniz said in this situation, I'm asking a question given the original cimmenter's assertion

    • @nimrod4996
      @nimrod4996 8 місяців тому

      @@Rspknlikeab0ssxd but Leibniz happen to be correct, and you happen to be wrong.

    • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
      @Rspknlikeab0ssxd 8 місяців тому

      @@nimrod4996 You don't seem to be understanding. I asserted no proposition nor nothing which one would be right or wrong for stating, I was asking for the opinion of original poster. For the record, I never said that Leibniz is wrong, and that's surely compatible with everything I've said

  • @CjqNslXUcM
    @CjqNslXUcM Рік тому +2

    Haecceity is seems like nonsense, but I don't think personal identity is a good objection in the first place. Of course you are a different person than you were in the past, even though people refer to you as the same person in continuity.

  • @gabrielteo3636
    @gabrielteo3636 6 місяців тому

    Solution: Nominalism

    • @Ιωσήφ-κ8ο
      @Ιωσήφ-κ8ο Місяць тому

      aint no way bro

    • @gabrielteo3636
      @gabrielteo3636 Місяць тому

      @@Ιωσήφ-κ8ο Nominalism solves all the problems of universals. There are none. No problem.

  • @KendraDodson-wq4ew
    @KendraDodson-wq4ew Рік тому

    A bit boring, says my class