Anti-haecceitism and indiscernibility.

It is often presumed that anti-haecceitists are not committed to the identity of indiscernibles. However, I argue that anti-haecceitism implies a particularly strong thesis about when individuals are indiscernible which motivates the identity of indiscernibles. The argument is first sketched intuiti...

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Published in:	Analysis Vol. 84; no. 1; pp. 94 - 106
Main Author:	Roberts, Alexander
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Jan2024
Subjects:	Iterative methods (Mathematics) Numerical analysis Iterative decoding Conjugate gradient methods Generalized minimal residual method
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Summary:	It is often presumed that anti-haecceitists are not committed to the identity of indiscernibles. However, I argue that anti-haecceitism implies a particularly strong thesis about when individuals are indiscernible which motivates the identity of indiscernibles. The argument is first sketched intuitively and then formalized in a system of higher-order modal logic.