Abstract (may include machine translation)
Peter Geach and others suppose that change in an object's relational properties absent any change in its intrinsic properties (relational change) is not a genuine change in that object but only a."mere Cambridge change." I explain and reject two strategies challenging Geach's position. I then present my own argument against Geach which depends on the recognition of entities identified in terms of their emergent properties, i.e. properties not reducible to physical properties. I provide some examples of such entities (social phenomena, historical events, artworks) and address the problem of finding a criterion for distinguishing genuine from nongenuine change.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 139-149 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Dialectica |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1999 |
Externally published | Yes |