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Ideas for 'Material Beings', 'Contingent Identity' and 'Hilbert's Programme'

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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

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Possible worlds identity needs a sortal [Gibbard]

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Only concepts, not individuals, can be the same across possible worlds [Gibbard]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

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Kripke's semantics needs lots of intuitions about which properties are essential [Gibbard]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts

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Counterparts reduce counterfactual identity to problems about similarity relations [Inwagen]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects

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A merely possible object clearly isn't there, so that is a defective notion [Inwagen]

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Merely possible objects must be consistent properties, or haecceities [Inwagen]