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    It is not the case that Scotus's haecceitas tradition shows individuation concerns a positive thisness irreducible to specific nature, making 'multiplicity from nature' the wrong explanatory target.

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    • 1.Positing haecceitas multiplies entities beyond necessity; spatial-temporal location or matter already sufficiently grounds individual distinction.
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    • 2.Haecceitas is metaphysically obscure and explanatorily idle—it names the problem rather than solving how one thing differs from another.
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    • 3.Scotus conflates the epistemological fact that we cannot derive individuation from nature alone with the metaphysical claim that nature cannot ground it.
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    • 1.Specific natures (humanity, rationality) cannot account for why this human differs from that human, since both share identical specific natures.
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    • 2.Individuation requires explaining why one thing is numerically distinct; appeals to nature alone leave this distinction unexplained and mysterious.
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    • 3.Haecceitas as positive thisness provides a direct answer: individuals possess an intrinsic, primitive property constituting their unique identity.
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