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13132 | A snowball's haecceity is the property of being identical with itself |
Full Idea: Plantinga assumes that being identical with that snowball names a property which is that snowball's haecceity. | |||
From: report of Alvin Plantinga (De Essentia [1979]) by Jan Westerhoff - Ontological Categories §52 | |||
A reaction: Only a philosopher would suggest such a bizarre way of establishing the unique individuality of a given snowball. You could hardly keep track of the snowball with just that criterion. How do you decide whether something has Plantinga's property? |