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    Supports→Adam of the actual world (Adam@) could not exist in a different possible world.

    Any substance expresses the entire world of which it is a member.

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    A being with even one property changed would not be Adam@, but a numerically dis...Adam of the actual world (Adam@) could not exist in a different possible world.Adam@ has a complete individual concept containing all of his properties.

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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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