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    It is not the case that Every individuable object falls under just one ultimate sortal

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    • 1.A single entity can simultaneously instantiate distinct sortal kinds without contradiction, as Locke's same-day identity of a man and a person demonstrates.
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    • 2.Locke's distinction between man and person shows one substance can fall under two ultimate sortals with different persistence conditions at the same time.
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    • 3.If two sortals yield divergent but non-contradictory identity conditions, no logical bar prevents their co-instantiation in one individual.
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    • 1.Wiggins's own sortal relativity thesis permits objects to satisfy multiple phase sortals AND a substance sortal, leaving the uniqueness of the ultimate sortal empirically underdetermined.
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    • 2.Where biological and psychological sortal criteria persistently converge on the same re-identification, positing a single ultimate sortal is a metaphysical postulate, not a logical necessity.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Every ultimate sortal has its own principle of individuation
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    • 2.If an object fell under more than one ultimate sortal, there could be a time at which the object satisfied the criteria for one sortal and not for the other
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    • 3.Identity cannot hold under one form of identification but not another
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