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    Essentialism about origins (Kripke, Salmon) holds that an... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The property 'being on David's right' is not an individual essence of Paul.

    Essentialism about origins (Kripke, Salmon) holds that an individual's essential properties include those fixed by their causal-historical origins.

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    • 1.Our intuitions strongly resist cases where an object's origin changes but we call it the same thing (e.g., a painting by Vermeer vs. a forgery).
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    • 2.Causal-historical facts are objective and determinate, providing a non-arbitrary basis for identity across possible worlds.
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    • 3.Origins explain why individuals have their distinctive properties better than non-historical essences do.
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    • 1.Origin essentialism implies counterintuitively that swapped embryos or infants raised by wrong parents cease to be the same individual.
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    • 2.Many essential properties (rationality, consciousness) are intrinsic and causally independent of how an object came to exist.
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    • 3.The causal-historical chain is too long and complex to determine which origin facts are truly essential versus merely accidental.
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