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By George Stuart Fullerton
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The author analyzes the ambiguous concept of sameness, distinguishing several senses in which mental states, perceptions, and objects may be called the same: identity at an instant, repetition of sensations, and the continuity of an object across successive percepts. He examines how perceptual grouping and memory allow isolated experiences to represent whole series, contrasts Idealist and Realist perspectives, and traces logical and epistemological difficulties arising from loose use of the term. The work systematically classifies these senses, illustrates consequences for judgments about objects and self, and advocates precise discrimination to avoid fallacies.

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Title: On Sameness and Identity: A Psychological Study

Author: George Stuart Fullerton

Release date: October 1, 2018 [eBook #57998]

Language: English

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ON SAMENESS AND IDENTITY.

PHILOSOPHICAL SERIES.

NUMBERS IN PREPARATION.

No. II. Studies from the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology.

Researches are in progress on: Memory and the Least Noticeable Difference in Sensation; Measurement in the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Nervous System; The Rate at which the Nervous Impulse Travels; The Personal Difference in the Time of Mental Processes; The Rate, Extent, and Force of Movement; Accuracy of Perception as a Function of the Time of Stimulation; The Correlation of Mental Time, Intensity, and Extensity; The Relative Value to Science of Experiment, Observation, and Memory; The Building of Complex Perceptions; etc.

No. III. Descartes' "Meditations,"

with Latin and English Texts, and Philosophical Analysis. By George Stuart Fullerton and William Romaine Newbold.

Publications of the University of Pennsylvania

PHILOSOPHICAL SERIES.

EDITED BY

GEORGE STUART FULLERTON
Professor of Philosophy
AND
JAMES McKEEN CATTELL
Professor of Psychology.

No. 1.
April, 1890.

ON SAMENESS AND IDENTITY.

A Psychological Study: Being a contribution to the foundations
of a Theory of Knowledge.

BY

GEORGE STUART FULLERTON.

PHILADELPHIA
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
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