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Hume's dictum as a guide to ontology
Adam Caulton
In this paper I aim to defend one version at least of Hume's dictum: roughly, the idea that possibility is determined by ontology through something like independent variation. My d…
physics.hist-ph2011
On Kinds of Indiscernibility in Logic and Metaphysics
Adam Caulton, Jeremy Butterfield
Using the Hilbert-Bernays account as a spring-board, we first define four ways in which two objects can be discerned from one another, using the non-logical vocabulary of the langu…