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MORE ON HAECCEITISM AND POSSIBLE WORLDS
Author(s) -
SKOW BRADFORD
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
analytic philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2153-960X
pISSN - 2153-9596
DOI - 10.1111/j.2153-960x.2011.00533.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , computer science , information retrieval
Anti-haecceitism is the thesis that the universe could not be nonqualitativelydifferent without being qualitatively different. Haecceitism is the denial ofanti-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 candidatedefinition of “anti-haecceitism” that uses possible-worlds talk, there is sometheory of possible worlds relative to which that definition is not equivalent toanti-haecceitism