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    Challenges→Global supervenience and strong individual supervenience are not equivalent concepts.

    If worlds are purely qualitative constructs with no primitive thisness, then indiscernible individuals across worlds collapse into identity, dissolving the asymmetry the supporting argument requires.

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    Indiscernible individuals(as used in metaphysics and logic)
    Two or more separate things that have absolutely every single quality in common, so there's no way to tell them apart by looking at their properties.
    Worlds(as used in metaphysics and modal logic)
    In philosophy, 'worlds' are different possible ways reality could be—like alternate universes or scenarios. Philosophers use them to think through what *could* be true, not just what *is* true.
    asymmetry(Modal logic frame semantics)
    A frame property expressible in hybrid logic by the formula c→□¬◇c, meaning if world x accesses world y, then y does not access x.
    identity (in philosophy)(whether the trees are actually identical)
    Sameness or whether two things are actually the same thing, not just very similar.
    primitive thisness

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    (Teller (1995) discusses primitive thisness as one possible feature of the particle concept)
    A specific conception of individuality whereby an entity possesses an identity not reducible to its qualitative properties
    qualitative
    Used interchangeably with 'categorical' in the context of the powerful qualities view

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