Identifying, Discriminating or Picking Out an Object: Some Distinctions Neglected in the Strawsonian Tradition

Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society 12:106-107 (2004)
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Abstract

In "Individuals", Peter Strawson talks about identifying, discriminating and picking out particular objects, regarding discriminating and picking out as ways of identifying. I object that, strictly speaking, identification means to say of two things that they are the same. In contrast, discriminating an object from all others can be done by just ascribing some predicate to it that does not apply to the others. Picking out an object does not even seem to require to distinguish it from all others. The object picked is distinct in that it is the picked one, but it is not clear - even in the context of sensorily picking out - that I have to be aware of this in order to do the picking.

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Martin Francisco Fricke
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

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