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    Challenges→Plantinga's view can account for the truth of claims about a possible child of Portman and Bush.

    If an individual essence cannot be identified without reference to a non-existent individual, positing it merely relocates, rather than resolves, the problem of singular reference to mere possibilia.

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    Non-existent individual(metaphysics)
    A specific thing (like a particular person or object) that doesn't actually exist, either because it never did or it no longer does.
    Singular reference(the main concept being explained)
    When a word or name picks out one specific thing in the world—like how the name 'Barack Obama' refers to one particular person, rather than a general category.
    individual essence(Introduced to extend determination from properties to particulars)
    The set of properties a particular thing cannot exist without; a measure of what is required in order to be that thing
    positing(Fichtean model of self-consciousness)
    The act by which the I establishes or asserts being — both its own being and, through limitation, the being of the non-I
    possibilia

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    Merely possible individuals — entities that exist in some possible world but not in the actual world

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