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    A full individual essence requires haecceity—a primitive ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Originating from a particular gamete pair is only a partial essence of a person, not a full essence.

    A full individual essence requires haecceity—a primitive thisness distinct from any qualitative or causal-historical property, as Plantinga argues in The Nature of Necessity.

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    • 1.Without haecceity, qualitatively identical objects would be indistinguishable, violating the principle that identity requires a real ground.
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    • 2.Possible worlds with atom-swaps demonstrate that two entities can share all qualitative and causal-historical properties yet remain distinct.
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    • 3.Only primitive thisness explains why an individual necessarily remains itself across all possible worlds rather than being contingent.
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    • 1.Haecceity posits undetectable, causally inert properties, violating parsimony and the principle that entities shouldn't multiply beyond explanatory need.
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    • 2.Bundle theory accounts for identity via spatiotemporal location and quality clusters without requiring mysterious primitive essences.
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    • 3.The indiscernibility of identicals suggests qualitative difference is both necessary and sufficient for distinctness; haecceity becomes redundant.
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