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Ideas for 'Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity', 'U.S. Declaration of Independence' and 'De Essentia'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity

13132	A snowball's haecceity is the property of being identical with itself [Plantinga, by Westerhoff]
	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?

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

13128	'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins]
	Full Idea: 'Ultimate sortals' are said to be non-subordinated, disjoint from one another, and uniquely paired with each object. Because of this, the ultimate sortal cannot be a satisfactory explication of the notion of an ontological category.
	From: comment on David Wiggins (Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity [1971], p.75) by Jan Westerhoff - Ontological Categories §26
	A reaction: My strong intuitions are that Wiggins is plain wrong, and Westerhoff gives the most promising reasons for my intuition. The simplest point is that objects can obviously belong to more than one category.