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| Title: | TWO CONCEPTIONS OF SIMILARITY | Authors: | Blumson, Ben | Keywords: | Arts & Humanities Philosophy similarity resemblance properties distance metric spaces |
Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2018 | Publisher: | WILEY | Citation: | Blumson, Ben (2018-01-01). TWO CONCEPTIONS OF SIMILARITY. PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY 68 (270) : 21-37. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqx021 | Abstract: | There are at least two traditional conceptions of numerical degree of similarity. According to the first, the degree of dissimilarity between two particulars is their distance apart in a metric space. According to the second, the degree of similarity between two particulars is a function of the number of (sparse) properties they have in common and not in common. This paper argues that these two conceptions are logically independent, but philosophically inconsonant. | Source Title: | PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/229859 | ISSN: | 00318094 14679213 |
DOI: | 10.1093/pq/pqx021 |
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