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    It is not the case that Socrates is not identical to his wisdom.

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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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    • Socrates can exist even if his wisdom does not exist.
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