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    It is not the case that Nathan Salmon's work shows that the alleged intuitions supporting origin essentialism fail to distinguish metaphysical necessity from epistemic necessity.

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    • 1.Some intuitions about identity are reliable guides to metaphysics; dismissing all as epistemic begs the question against essentialism.
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    • 2.The distinction between epistemic and metaphysical necessity itself requires independent justification, not mere stipulation.
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    • 3.Origin essentialism can be defended on grounds independent of intuition—e.g., causal constitution of identity—which Salmon's critique doesn't address.
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    • 1.Our inability to conceive of Socrates without his origins feels necessary, but this reflects cognitive limits, not metaphysical facts.
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    • 2.If origin essentialism were truly metaphysically necessary, it should hold across all possible worlds, not just feel intuitively compelling.
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    • 3.Salmon demonstrates that intuitions about origins conflate what we cannot empirically verify with what is genuinely impossible.
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