Identity and artefacts

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Identity and artefacts

• Dr Pawel Garbacz

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Identity and artefacts

• Criterialism with respect to X
• Some universal i-method over a
• category X involves (as its principle)
• an identity criterion for elements of X.

• Acriterialism with respect to X
• No universal i-method over a category
• X involves (as its principle) an identity
• criterion for elements of X.

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Identity and artefacts

• (1) x is the same artefact as y iff x is
  represented by the same design as y.
• x truthfully represents y iff every
  representational detail of x corresponds to some
• detail of y.
• x adequately represents y iff every detail of y
  corresponds to some
• representational detail of x.
• (2) (i) (At least) some designs of x truthfully
  represent2 x.
• (ii) For any artefact x, no design adequately
  represents2 x.

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Identity and artefacts

• (3) x is the same artefact as y if x and y are
  both artefacts and the minimal design of x is
  identical with the minimal design of y.
• (4) Every artefact is represented2 by at most one
  minimal design.