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    It is not the case that A property being 'of' an individual does not entail that the property requires the individual's existence in order to exist or be instantiated.

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    • 1.If a property is 'of' an individual, that relation itself constitutes a dependence: the property's identity requires that individual's reference.
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    • 2.Intrinsic properties like 'Socrates' wisdom' are constitutively tied to Socrates; they cannot be fully instantiated without him existing.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'of an individual' and mere abstract universals collapses if properties need not depend on their bearers for existence.
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    • 1.Abstract properties like 'being-a-perfect-number' belong to 7, yet exist independently of whether 7 or any individual exists.
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    • 2.Mathematical truths about Socrates' essence (e.g., being-composed-of-atoms) hold necessarily regardless of his temporal existence.
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    • 3.Properties can be instantiated by multiple bearers across different possible worlds where only some bearers exist in each world.
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