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    Supports→The rigidified property 'actually being on David's right' is an individual essence of Paul.

    If Paul is the only person to have the contingent property of being on David's right in the actual world, then the rigidified version of that property belongs necessarily and exclusively to Paul.

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    Necessarily
    "Necessarily" means something must be true in all possible situations—it's not just true right now, but couldn't be false under any circumstances. For example, "2+2=4 necessarily" means there's no possible way 2+2 could equal anything other than 4. This contrasts with "contingently" true facts, like "it's raining today," which happen to be true but could have been false.
    actual world(Kripke-Plantinga framework)
    The one possible state of affairs (possible world) that obtains.
    contingent property

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    A property G of an object o such that the singular proposition [o is G] is true at some times and worlds and false at others
    exclusively(logic and set theory)
    Belonging only to one person or thing, and no one else.
    rigidified(modal semantics)
    Made fixed or locked in place. In this case, it means converting a property that could change into one that stays permanently tied to a person.

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    The second response involves moving from contingent properties like those involved in (2) and (3) to necessary properties, and in particular to what, following Plantinga in (1974), we will call an individual essence, which is a property that, necessarily, if x exists, then it has that property and, necessarily, only x has. The property being on David's right is not an individual essence of Paul, as Paul might have existed without having had it and Charles might have had it instead. But it is eas

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