Determining Sameness of Substance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8396922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Needham (0000-0002-6559-7528, Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 953-979 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/axv050 |
| OpenAlex | W2337330875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
The idea that the extension of a chemical substance is fixed by determining what stands in the relation of being the same substance to a paradigm sample plays a substantial role in chemistry, and procedures of identification that don’t make direct use of the method can be traced back to ones that do. But paradigm samples are not typically selected by ostension, as in Putnam’s version of this procedure. The relevance of ostension is questioned after a discussion of the establishment of paradigm specimens in the analysis of some contents of crude oil and an examination of the general features of the same-substance relation that takes into account the temporal dependency and the consequent role of characteristic features of substances. 1. Introduction2. Some Formal Properties of the Same-Substance Relation3. Characteristic Properties and Paradigm Samples4. Naming Substances Old and New5. Some Points of Comparison with Temperature6. Summary and Conclusion
Data mining · Dependency (UML) · Epistemology · Extension (predicate logic) · Identification (biology) · Relation (database) · Relevance (law) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Ecology · History and advancements in chemistry · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |