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    Morgan (Bill's mother) is qualitatively indiscernible fro... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Purely qualitative (descriptive) identification is insufficient to uniquely identify all objects in the reduplication universe.

    Morgan (Bill's mother) is qualitatively indiscernible from Morgan* (Bill*'s mother).

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    Purely qualitative (descriptive) identification is insufficient to uniquely iden...Sally cannot distinguish Morgan from Morgan* in purely qualitative terms.Therefore, purely qualitative terms cannot uniquely identify Morgan.

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    So far we have argued that demonstrative identification is not reducible to descriptive identification. But Strawson makes the stronger claim that, in the reduplication universe, descriptive identification depends on demonstrative identification. To get this stronger claim consider an object that Sally has never perceived but can intuitively think about — say, Bill's mother. Strawson claims that considering this case proves false the claim “that where the particular to be identified cannot be di

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