Full Idea
The use of models is so natural to logicians ...that they sometimes take seriously what are only artefacts of the model, and adopt a bare particular metaphysics. Why? Because the model so nicely separates the bare particular from its clothing.
Gist of Idea
Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically
Source
David Kaplan (Transworld Heir Lines [1967], p.97)
Book Reference
'The Possible and the Actual', ed/tr. Loux,Michael J. [Cornell 1979], p.97
A Reaction
See also Idea 11970. I think this observation is correct, and incredibly important. We need to keep quite separate the notion of identity in conceptual space from our notion of identity in the actual world. The first is bare, the second fat.
Related Idea
Idea 11970 Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan]