Identity A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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  1. Leibniz converses with Sophie Charlotte in the park of Herrenhausen about the possibility of
    finding two identical leaves.


For Leibniz, ‘identical’ thus meant unique. This interpretation of ‘identity’ is
known as the ‘identity of indiscernibles’ or the ‘indiscernibility of identicals’.
Identical objects must have all of their properties in common, including spatial

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