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Single Idea 11903
[filed under theme 10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / d. Haecceitism
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Full Idea
Lewis's strategy for defending extreme haecceitism is that supposed impossibilities (that I might have been a poached egg) could be reconstrued as genuine possibilities that are so remote from reality that they are ignored.
Gist of Idea
Extreme haecceitists could say I might have been a poached egg, but it is too remote to consider
Source
report of David Lewis (On the Plurality of Worlds [1986], 239-) by Penelope Mackie - How Things Might Have Been 9.3
Book Ref
Mackie,Penelope: 'How Things Might Have Been' [OUP 2006], p.155
A Reaction
Not a promising route. Wiggins asks: if you think I could have been a poached egg, start by defining more precisely this 'I' to which we are referring. The definition will blatantly exclude any possibility of my poachedegghood.
The
16 ideas
with the same theme
[indistinguishable worlds might still have different objects]:
13085
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Leibniz is some form of haecceitist
[Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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12869
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Two objects may only differ in being different
[Wittgenstein]
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16451
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Adams says anti-haecceitism reduces all thisness to suchness
[Adams,RM, by Stalnaker]
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11901
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Haecceitism may or may not involve some logical connection to essence
[Adams,RM, by Mackie,P]
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14512
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Moderate Haecceitism says transworld identities are primitive, but connected to qualities
[Adams,RM]
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11990
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'Haecceitism' says that sameness or difference of individuals is independent of appearances
[Kaplan]
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9668
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'Haecceitism' is common thisness under dissimilarity, or distinct thisnesses under resemblance
[Kaplan]
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11991
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If quantification into modal contexts is legitimate, that seems to imply some form of haecceitism
[Kaplan]
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16450
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Anti-haecceitism says there is no more to an individual than meeting some qualitative conditions
[Stalnaker]
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11903
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Extreme haecceitists could say I might have been a poached egg, but it is too remote to consider
[Lewis, by Mackie,P]
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15129
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Haecceitism implies de re differences but qualitative identity
[Lewis]
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9670
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Extreme haecceitism says you might possibly be a poached egg
[Lewis]
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12021
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Haecceitism attributes to each individual a primitive identity or thisness
[Forbes,G]
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12029
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We believe in thisnesses, because we reject bizarre possibilities as not being about that individual
[Forbes,G]
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9491
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Haecceitism says identity is independent of qualities and without essence
[Bird]
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11884
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The theory of 'haecceitism' does not need commitment to individual haecceities
[Mackie,P]
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