More on Haecceitism and Possible Worlds
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Skow, Bradford
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December 2011
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Analytic Philosophy
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Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing)
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Skow, Bradford. “MORE ON HAECCEITISM AND POSSIBLE WORLDS.” Analytic Philosophy 52.4 (2011): 267–269.
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Abstract
Anti-haecceitism is the thesis that the universe could not be nonqualitatively
different without being qualitatively different. Haecceitism is the denial of
anti-haecceitism.1 In “Haecceitism, Anti-Haecceitism, and Possible Worlds”
(Skow 2008), I argued that there are no nontendentious definitions of “haecceitism”
and “anti-haecceitism” using possible-worlds talk. For any candidate
definition of “anti-haecceitism” that uses possible-worlds talk, there is some
theory of possible worlds relative to which that definition is not equivalent to
anti-haecceitism.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2153-960X.2011.00533.x
