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Full Idea
The difficulty is that Kripke individuates objects by their modal properties, by what they (essentially) could and could not be. Kripke's ontology presupposes essentialism; it can not be used to ground it.
Gist of Idea
Kripke individuates objects by essential modal properties (and presupposes essentialism)
Source
report of Saul A. Kripke (Naming and Necessity lectures [1970]) by Hilary Putnam - Why there isn't a ready-made world 'Essences'
Book Ref
Putnam,Hilary: 'Realism and Reason: Papers vol 3' [CUP 1985], p.220
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12971 | If two individuals could be indistinguishable, there could be no principle of individuation [Leibniz] |
19379 | The law of the series, which determines future states of a substance, is what individuates it [Leibniz] |
10194 | Two things can only be distinguished by a distinct property or a distinct relation [Black] |
17668 | It is likely that particulars can be individuated by unique conjunctions of properties [Armstrong] |
8520 | An individual is a union of a group of qualities and a position [Quinton, by Campbell,K] |
17647 | Kripke individuates objects by essential modal properties (and presupposes essentialism) [Kripke, by Putnam] |
15455 | Total intrinsic properties give us what a thing is [Lewis] |
8303 | Criteria of identity cannot individuate objects, because they are shared among different types [Lowe] |
16680 | Scholastics thought Quantity could be the principle of individuation [Pasnau] |
16785 | If you reject essences, questions of individuation become extremely difficult [Pasnau] |