Determinables en metafísica estoica

Abstract

In this paper, I will propose a solution to a puzzle presented by Chrysippus of Soli (279-206 BC) the third head of the Stoic school. The puzzle concerns the criterion of identity; it has long been understood to appeal to concerns about diachronic identity, but I will show that it is relevant also to synchronic identity. The solution takes the form of an answer to the Growing Argument, an argument claiming that if a part, no matter how small, of an individual, changes, then the whole individual becomes non-identical to what it was before the change. With the Growing Argument as background, I will provide a form of metaphysical explanation framed by some relation characteristic of those holding between determinates and their determinables.