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Full Idea
Talk of merely possible objects may be redeemed in either maximally consistent sets of properties or in haecceities.
Gist of Idea
Merely possible objects must be consistent properties, or haecceities
Source
Peter van Inwagen (Material Beings [1990], 19)
Book Ref
Inwagen,Peter van: 'Material Beings' [Cornell 1995], p.281
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| 5039 | If non-existents are possible, their existence would replace what now exists, which cannot therefore be necessary [Leibniz] |
| 16986 | That there might have been unicorns is false; we don't know the circumstances for unicorns [Kripke] |
| 17590 | A merely possible object clearly isn't there, so that is a defective notion [Inwagen] |
| 17591 | Merely possible objects must be consistent properties, or haecceities [Inwagen] |
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| 15142 | Our ability to count objects across possibilities favours the Barcan formulas [Williamson] |
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| 19037 | Are there possible objects which nothing has ever had the potentiality to produce? [Vetter] |