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    Challenges→A generic/determinable universal cannot be identified with any specific/determinate universal

    A difference in causal descriptions under incomplete information cannot satisfy the Leibnizian criterion for non-identity, since that criterion requires differing in a genuine property, not a descriptivist shadow.

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    Key Terms

    Causal descriptions(metaphysics and explanation)
    Explanations of why something happened or how one thing caused another to occur.
    Descriptivist shadow(philosophy of language and metaphysics)
    An appearance of difference that comes from using different words or descriptions to talk about something, rather than from any real difference in what the thing actually is.
    Incomplete information(epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    A situation where you don't have all the facts or knowledge needed to fully understand something.
    Leibnizian criterion(identity and difference)
    A rule named after philosopher Gottfried Leibniz that says two things are identical (the same) if and only if they share every single property—if they differ in even one real property, they must be different things.

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    Non-Identity(Used to establish that each newly introduced form of likeness (L2, L3, ...) is distinct from its predecessors)
    The principle that a form is numerically distinct from the particulars (or other forms) that partake of it
    genuine property(The debate is about whether existence counts as a genuine property)
    A real, meaningful characteristic or quality that actually belongs to something and makes a difference to what it is.

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