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'In Defense of Essentialism', 'Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'' and 'How Things Might Have Been'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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A principle of individuation may pinpoint identity and distinctness, now and over time [Mackie,P]
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Individuation may include counterfactual possibilities, as well as identity and persistence [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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A haecceity is the essential, simple, unanalysable property of being-this-thing [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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'Substance theorists' take modal properties as primitive, without structure, just falling under a sortal [Paul,LA]
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If an object's sort determines its properties, we need to ask what determines its sort [Paul,LA]
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Substance essentialism says an object is multiple, as falling under various different sortals [Paul,LA]
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