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    Supports→The Langton and Lewis account fails as an account of qualitative identity interior properties

    If a property holds in every world regardless of an object's nature or relations, it carries no information about qualitative interior character in the sense required by personal identity theory.

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    Key Terms

    Carries information(as used in epistemology)
    Tells us something meaningful or reveals something real about the way things are, rather than being trivial or obvious.
    Modal logic(logic)
    A system of logic that deals with concepts like possibility, necessity, and what could or must be true.
    Personal identity theory(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)
    The philosophical study of what makes you 'you' over time—what it means to be the same person today as you were yesterday, or what makes your life continuous.
    Qualitative interior character(as used in philosophy of mind and personal identity)
    The internal, felt qualities of something—what it's actually like from the inside, such as what an experience feels like or what makes something unique on the inside.
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    (Leibniz's account of modality; 'existence' of possible worlds is shorthand for compossibility, not literal existence)
    A set of compossible essences — a maximal collection of individual natures that can co-exist without contradiction
    property(Locke's demonstration of the moral proposition 'Where there is no property, there is no injustice.')
    A right to something.

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