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Quote: define numeric identity by a one-one relationship; need to use identity to define numeric identity

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number as the extension of a class of equinumerous classes

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HUME [Treatise, Bk. I, Part iii, Sect. 1] long ago mentioned such a means … [of equating numbers] … to every unit of the other, we pronounce … [p. 72. This raises some logical doubts] … We are therefore proposing not to define identity … a means for arriving at that which is …   Google-1   Google-2

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