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ESENCJALIZM, ANTYHAECCEITYZM I HAECCEITYZM
ESSENTIALISM, ANTIHAECCEITISM, AND HAECCEITISM

Author(s): Karol Lenart
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: essence; essentialism; possible worlds; haecceiitsm; antihaecceitism; individuals, identity

Summary/Abstract: A standard contemporary formulation essentialism defines essential properties with a help of a concept of possible worlds. It is often argued that in order to use possible worlds effectively, facts about transworld identity of individuals need to be determined. In this paper I discuss how essentialist might attempt the issue of transworld identity of individuals. Specifically, I analyze a connection between essentialism and the two theories that explain the transworld identity issue, that is, haecceitism and antihaecceitism. I provide a detailed analysis of different variants of antihaecceitism and argue, that all of them are incompatible with basic intuitions that stay behind essentialism. In contrast to that, I defend a position that essentialism ought to be combined with some form of haecceitism. In the remainder of this paper I provide the two ways through which essentialist might be a haecceitist.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 131-151
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish
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