...This chapter defends a view according to which the identity and distinctness is, in a sense that they explain, brute. They compare this view with two of its rivals, which are due to Terence Parsons, on the one hand, and to Benjamin Schnieder and Tatjana von Solodkoff, on the other. A common...

... Jarvis Thomson, of the Anscombe-Davidson concept which calls for a deeper understanding of the ontological condition of an act. The chapter then presents an analysis of action sentences, citing the works of Romane Clark and Terence Parsons in the discussion of act type and act property. Anscombe G E M...

... shall call L_P the Parsons transform of our original language L_I, since when Terence Parsons speaks of an “extensional transform” he means a language like L_P. ² But L_E is just as extensional as L_P. There is nothing anti...