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Ideas for 'Commentary on 'De Anima'', 'Naming and Necessity lectures' and '24: Book of Jeremiah'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties

17647	Kripke individuates objects by essential modal properties (and presupposes essentialism) [Kripke, by Putnam]
	Full Idea: The difficulty is that Kripke individuates objects by their modal properties, by what they (essentially) could and could not be. Kripke's ontology presupposes essentialism; it can not be used to ground it.
	From: report of Saul A. Kripke (Naming and Necessity lectures [1970]) by Hilary Putnam - Why there isn't a ready-made world 'Essences'