Continuity and similarity in cross-identification

Esa Saarinen

pp. 189-215

in: Esa Saarinen, Risto Hilpinen, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Merrill Provence Hintikka (eds), Essays in honour of Jaakko Hintikka, Berlin, Springer, 1979

Abstract

One of the central problems of quantified intensional logic is the problem of cross-identification. Briefly put, this problem arises when we try to explicate the conditions under which an individual figuring in a possible world is the same as an individual figuring in another possible world.