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

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    • Socrates can exist even if his wisdom does not exist.
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    • 1.Separability does not entail non-identity, since a thing can be conceived apart from itself under different descriptions.
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    • 2.Socrates-qua-wise and Socrates-qua-body are the same substance considered under different formal aspects, not distinct existents.
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    • 3.Aristotle's doctrine of essential properties entails that for Socrates to exist as Socrates, his characteristic rational capacities must be actual.
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    • 1.Bundle theorists from Hume onward hold that a substance just is the collection of its properties, making Socrates identical to the totality including his wisdom.
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    • 2.If Socrates has no substratum distinct from his properties, the separability argument presupposes a bare-particular ontology that is itself contested.
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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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