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    Supports→Judas could not have refrained from his sin while remaining the same individual, Judas.

    An individual's complete concept includes every property, including actions, that individual will have.

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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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