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Ideas for 'Actualism and Thisness', 'How the Laws of Physics Lie' and 'Posterior Analytics'

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

16463	Adams says actual things have haecceities, but not things that only might exist [Adams,RM, by Stalnaker]
	Full Idea: Adams favours haecceitism about actual things but no haecceities for things that might exist but don't.
	From: report of Robert Merrihew Adams (Actualism and Thisness [1981]) by Robert C. Stalnaker - Mere Possibilities 4.2
	A reaction: This contrasts with Plantinga, who proposes necessary essences for everything, even for what might exist. Plantinga sounds crazy to me, Adams merely interesting but not too plausible.

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

1687	Why are being terrestrial and a biped combined in the definition of man, but being literate and musical aren't? [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: Why will a man be a two-footed terrestrial animal and not an animal and terrestrial? Assumptions do not make it necessary that what is predicated form a unity - rather, it is as if the same man were musical and literate.
	From: Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 92a30)