. . . "Though none of these 1,001 lumps of feline tissue is the same lump of feline tissue as another, each is the same cat as any other: each of them, then, is a cat, but there is only one cat on the mat, and our original story stands.(Peter Geach, Reference and Generality, Cornell UP [Ithaca: 1980] 215-216)Geach then points out that this appears to commit us to the claim that ---- is the same cat as -" .