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    It is not the case that A person who experienced different events would not be the same individual (Adam) but a numerically distinct person (another Adam).

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    • 1.Kripke's causal-historical theory holds that names are rigid designators picking out the same individual across all possible worlds.
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    • 2.If 'Adam' rigidly designates this individual, then a counterfactual Adam who suffered different events is still numerically identical Adam, not a distinct person.
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    • 3.Leibniz's inference conflates qualitative distinctness with numerical distinctness, which rigid designation precisely separates.
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    • 1.Locke's psychological continuity theory individuates persons by chains of memory and consciousness, not by the totality of experienced events.
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    • 2.A being who experienced different events could share sufficient psychological continuity with Adam to constitute the very same person on this criterion.
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    • 3.Leibniz's complete individual concept criterion for identity is thus one contested framework among alternatives, not an inescapable metaphysical truth.
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    • 1.Nothing prevents us from saying that a being who experienced different events would be another individual.
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    • 2.If different events had happened to Adam, the resulting being would not have been our Adam.
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