Hume's puzzle about identity

Philosophical Studies 98 (2):187-201 (2000)
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In discussion of the "Principle of Identity" in the Treatise Hume presents a puzzle about identity - not a puzzle for semantics, like Frege's, but a puzzle for a theory of representation. In this essay I am less concerned with issues of Hume interpretation and more concerned with the puzzle itself.

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Donald L. M. Baxter
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