11990
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'Haecceitism' says that sameness or difference of individuals is independent of appearances [Kaplan]
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Full Idea:
The doctrine that we can ask whether this is the same individual in another possible world, and that a common 'thisness' may underlie extreme dissimilarity, or distinct thisnesses may underlie great resemblance, I call 'Haecceitism'.
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From:
David Kaplan (How to Russell a Frege-Church [1975], IV)
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A reaction:
Penelope Mackie emphasises that this doctrine, that each thing is somehow individuated, is not the same as believing in actual haecceities, specific properties which achieve the individuating.
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11991
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If quantification into modal contexts is legitimate, that seems to imply some form of haecceitism [Kaplan]
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Full Idea:
If one regards the usual form of quantification into modal and other intensional contexts - modality de re - as legitimate (without special explanations), then one seems committed to some form of haecceitism.
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From:
David Kaplan (How to Russell a Frege-Church [1975], IV)
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A reaction:
That is, modal reference requires fixed identities, irrespective of possible changes in properties. Why could one not refer to objects just as bundles of properties, with some sort of rules about when it ceased to be that particular bundle (keep 60%?)?
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Good strategies avoid conflict, respond to hostility, forgive, and are clear [Axelrod]
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Full Idea:
Successful game strategies avoid unnecessary conflict, are provoked by an uncalled for defection, forgive after a provocation, and behave clearly so the other player can adapt.
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From:
Robert Axelrod (The Evolution of Co-Operation [1984], 1)
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A reaction:
[compressed] Exactly what you would expect from a nice but successful school teacher. The strategies for success in these games is the same as the rules for educating a person into cooperative behaviour. TIT FOR TAT does all these.
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