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Haecceity - An Ontological Essay (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1993)
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Haecceity - An Ontological Essay (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1993)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 57
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Many contemporary philosophers are interested in the scotistic
notion of haecceity or thisness' because it is relevant to
important problems concerning identity and individuation,
reference, modality, and propositional attitudes. Haecceity is the
only book-length work devoted to this topic. The author develops a
novel defense of Platonism, arguing, first, that abstracta -
nonqualitative haecceities - are needed to explain concreta's being
diverse at a time; and second, that unexemplified haecceities are
then required to accommodate the full range of cases in which there
are possible worlds containing individuals not present in the
actual world. In the cognitive area, an original epistemic argument
is presented which implies that certain haecceities can be grasped
by a person: his own, those of certain of his mental states, and
those of various abstracta, but not those of external things. It is
argued that in consequence there is a clear sense in which one is
directly acquainted with the former entities, but not with external
things.
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