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Keeping Ontological and Epistemological Issues Apart.......................................21 4. Ontological Questions are not Semantic Either....................................................22 5. Truthmakers for the Current Scientific Image of the World.................................24 d that the authors of the work and p ents of the work are the author’s pro ontribution is published according ontribution is published Henry Laycock Variables, Generality and Existence: Considerations on the Notion of a Concept-Script.......................................................................................................27 1. Ontology and concept-script.................................................................................27 2. Two great semantic categories..............................................................................29 3. 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It does Lidia Obojska Primary Relations and a Non-Standard Form of Identity .............................................53 1. Introduction ..........................................................................................................53 2. Mereology.............................................................................................................54 3. Relations and Qualities.........................................................................................56 4. Non-standard identity ...........................................................................................59 5. Application ...........................................................................................................60 6. Conclusions ..........................................................................................................64 Paolo Valore (ed.) Topics on General and Formal Ontology ©2006 Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher Monza/Italy 6 Table of Contents Paolo Valore Some Ontological Remarks on the Maxim of Identification of Indiscernibles ..............67 and electronic format and by any other mean right exclusive the has Publisher Polimetrica for profit. or purposes commercial for work the of contents the of use not allow License B” gives anyone the possibility to di is made av and sold is not The electronic edition of this book 1. Initial problems.....................................................................................................67 2. Aim of this paper ..................................................................................................69 3. Thing and representation ......................................................................................69 4. Essence .................................................................................................................70 5. “De dicto” necessity and “de re” necessity...........................................................71 6. Identification in contexts of discourse..................................................................72 7. Exemplification: sociology and prepositional logic .............................................73 8. Some general considerations ................................................................................73 s of publication. Additional rights on the cont stribute the contents of work,stribute provide 9. Token Identity vs Type Identity ...........................................................................74 10. Narrow Identity vs Wide Identity .......................................................................74