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[catalogued under 10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity]

Full Idea

Is there a difference between what Socrates could have been, and what he could have become?

Gist of Idea

What Socrates could have been, and could have become, are different?

Source

Alvin Plantinga (De Re and De Dicto [1969], p.44)

Book Reference

Plantinga,Alvin: 'Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality' [OUP 2003], p.44


A Reaction

That is, I take it, 1) how different might he have been in the past, given how he is now?, and 2) how different might he have been in the past, and now, if he had permanently diverged from how he is now? 1) has tight constraints on it.