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    It is not the case that If whether Humphrey could have won the election depends on which counterpart relation is operative, then de re modal truths about Humphrey lack determinate truth conditions, which Chisholm's modal essentialism explicitly rejects.

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    • 1.The 'right' counterpart relation may be determinate even if multiple relations are metaphysically possible, just as the actual world is determinate despite possible worlds.
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    • 2.Indeterminacy about which relation is operative doesn't entail indeterminacy about truth-conditions if the truth-value is the same under all admissible relations.
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    • 3.Chisholm could accept that truth-conditions depend on facts about counterpart relations without abandoning essentialism about Humphrey's intrinsic properties.
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    • 1.Counterpart theory makes truth-conditions depend on conventional choices about identity criteria, which are not determinate facts about Humphrey.
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    • 2.Modal essentialism requires that facts about what is essential to Humphrey obtain independently of which relation we use to track him across worlds.
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    • 3.If the same proposition's truth varies with different but equally legitimate counterpart relations, then that proposition lacks determinate truth conditions.
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