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Full Idea
Being the tallest man and being President of the United States are 'individual concepts', but not haecceities.
Gist of Idea
Being the tallest man is an 'individual concept', but not a haecceity
Source
Roderick Chisholm (Person and Object [1976], 1.4)
Book Ref
Chisholm,Roderick: 'Person and Object' [Open Court 1976], p.29
A Reaction
Chisholm introduces this term, to help him explain his haecceity more clearly. (His proposal on that adds a lot of fog to this area of metaphysics).
Related Idea
Idea 15807 A haecceity is a property had necessarily, and strictly confined to one entity [Chisholm]