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    It is not the case that Kripke's essentialist framework allows individuals to persist across possible worlds while retaining only essential properties, not all properties.

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    • 1.The distinction between essential and accidental properties lacks clear criteria—why is origin essential but composition accidental?
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    • 2.Kripke's framework may conflate metaphysical necessity with linguistic rigidity; a term referring rigidly doesn't prove the property is essential.
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    • 3.Some essential properties seem world-relative or conventional rather than metaphysically grounded, undermining the framework's objectivity.
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    • 1.Essential properties (like origin) explain why an object remains the same across worlds while accidental properties vary.
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    • 2.Intuition supports this: a table made from oak could have been made from pine, but Queen Elizabeth II couldn't have had different parents.
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    • 3.This framework avoids the problem of too-easy identity: it prevents any object from being identical to any other across possible worlds.
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