Self-Differing, Aspects, and Leibniz’s Law

What is it about?

I argue that an individual has *aspects* numerically identical with it and each other that nonetheless qualitatively differ from it and each other. This discernibility of identicals does not violate Leibniz’s Law, however. To argue that there are aspects I appeal to the internal conflicts of conscious beings. To enhance our understanding of the concept of aspect I formalize some principles for its use. After that I argue that all sorts of individual things have aspects, not just people who are conflicted.

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Why is it important?

This is the first paper in the analytic tradition to argue for literal self-differing. Its theory can be part of a unified response to numerous metaphysical problems including instantiation, alteration, trans-world identity, composition, constitution, the mind/body problem, and others.

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