Full Idea
Leibniz takes the laws-of-the-series to play a haecceitistic role.
Gist of Idea
The laws-of-the-series plays a haecceitist role
Source
report of Gottfried Leibniz (works [1690]) by Cover,J/O'Leary-Hawthorne,J - Substance and Individuation in Leibniz 7.5
Book Reference
Cover,J/O'Leary-Hawthorne,J: 'Substance and Individuation in Leibniz' [CUP 1999], p.286
A Reaction
Idea 13092 for law-in-the-series. He thinks that a law-in-a-series is unique to a substance, and so can individuate it. That is a pretty good proposal, if anything is going to do the job. Perhaps I do believe in haecceities, as unique bundles of powers?
Related Ideas
Idea 13092 The essence of substance is the law of its changes, as in the series of numbers [Leibniz]
Idea 13085 Leibniz is some form of haecceitist [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]