All of Adam@'s properties are essential to him (superessentialism).

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1.When we speak of an Adam who sinned and an Adam who did not, we cannot be referring to the same individual.
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2.Failure of identical reference across possible worlds entails that every property distinguishing an individual is essential to that individual.
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3.Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles implies that any difference in properties yields a numerically distinct substance.
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Leibniz's point is that, since the Adam of the actual world (call him “Adam@”) has a complete concept containing all of his properties and since Adam@ (or any substance) expresses the entire world of which he is a member, Adam@ could not exist in a different world. Moreover, if any of Adam@'s properties were somehow changed, then the resulting being would not be Adam@. This is indeed an important consequence of his Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles. When we speak of the Adam who broug

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