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    Individual essences, as purely qualitative or haecceitist... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Plantinga's view can account for the truth of claims about a possible child of Portman and Bush.

    Individual essences, as purely qualitative or haecceitistic entities, cannot be individuated prior to the existence of the individual they are essences of.

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    • 1.Essences are metaphysically dependent on their bearers; what has no bearer cannot be individuated as anything's essence.
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    • 2.Identity criteria for abstract entities require reference to concrete instantiators; essences lack independent identity conditions.
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    • 3.Haecceities are 'thisness' properties; they gain meaning only relative to the particular individual they individuate.
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    • 1.Mathematical and logical essences exist in abstract space independently; they are individuated by their formal structure, not existence.
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    • 2.If essences cannot be individuated pre-existence, God could not know which individual He creates; this undermines divine omniscience.
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    • 3.Possible worlds framework allows essences to be individuated within possible scenarios prior to any actual instantiation.
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