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This misunderstands the laws of Aristotle. One thing is the concept of identity, which is something that exists without mutations along time in our subjective understanding, and another thing is the object such concept refers to. Either the object is a rock or a river, both change continuously and are never the same factually, but the concept remains in time. How does the subjective concept relates to the objective phenomenon is out of scope here.

RodolfoAP
– RodolfoAP

2021-06-08 16:17:14 +00:00
Commented Jun 8, 2021 at 16:17
@RodolfoAP. It is unlikely that when Aristotle referred to individuals in syllogisms, actual human beings, he considered them to be something that existed without mutations. That seems like a Scholastic embellishment. Besides which, this question is not set within Aristotle, it is a real question of everyday relevance.

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– hide_in_plain_sight

2021-06-08 16:20:20 +00:00
Commented Jun 8, 2021 at 16:20

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