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    Socrates is not identical to his humanity. — Carmelics
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    Socrates is not identical to his humanity.

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    • There is more to Socrates than his humanity, even though he cannot exist without it.
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    • 1.For Socrates, to be is precisely to be this particular human being, making his humanity constitutive of his very identity, not merely a property he bears.
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    • 2.If Socrates cannot exist without his humanity, and his humanity cannot be instantiated without being Socrates's humanity, the two are mutually individuating and thus identical.
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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphism holds that a substance just is the composite of its form and matter, so Socrates's humanity (his form) is not a distinct thing he has but what he fundamentally is.
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    • 2.On a strict Aristotelian reading, saying 'Socrates is not identical to his humanity' conflates the composite substance with an abstracted universal, obscuring that his individual humanity just is his substantial form.
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    Since a Plantinga-type approach to ontology rules out DDS from the outset, no sophisticated adherent of the doctrine will adopt such an approach. The DDS defender will embrace an ontology that accommodates an ontologically simple being. Indeed, as Nicholas Wolterstorff (1991) notes, classical proponents of DDS such as Aquinas had a radically different ontological style, one that allowed for the coherent conceivability of DDS. They did not think of individuals as related to their properties as to abstracta external to them, but as having properties as ontological constituents. They, and some at...

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