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Full Idea
Even if Humphrey is a modal continuant, it doesn't take the whole of him to do such things as winning.
Gist of Idea
It doesn't take the whole of a possible Humphrey to win the election
Source
David Lewis (Counterpart theory and Quant. Modal Logic [1968], Post B)
Book Ref
Lewis,David: 'Philosophical Papers Vol.1' [OUP 1983], p.41
A Reaction
This responds to Kripke's famous example, that people only care about what happens to themselves, and not to some 'counterpart' of themselves.
Related Idea
Idea 16994 Counterpart theory is bizarre, as no one cares what happens to a mere counterpart [Kripke on Lewis]
| 16994 | Counterpart theory is bizarre, as no one cares what happens to a mere counterpart [Kripke on Lewis] |
| 11974 | Counterparts are not the original thing, but resemble it more than other things do [Lewis] |
| 11975 | If the closest resembler to you is in fact quite unlike you, then you have no counterpart [Lewis] |
| 11977 | Essential attributes are those shared with all the counterparts [Lewis] |
| 11976 | Aristotelian essentialism says essences are not relative to specification [Lewis] |
| 11979 | It doesn't take the whole of a possible Humphrey to win the election [Lewis] |
| 11978 | Causal necessities hold in all worlds compatible with the laws of nature [Lewis] |