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    The argument illicitly imports a Kripkean essentialist framework that Lewis and Geach-style relativists explicitly reject as question-begging against four-dimensionalist alternatives.

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    Geach-style relativists(another group of philosophers with alternative views on identity and sameness)
    Philosophers following Peter Geach's ideas who argue that whether something is 'the same' depends on what respect or context you're talking about—it's not absolute.
    Illicitly imports(as the main criticism of Marcus's reasoning)
    Sneakily introduces an assumption or idea into an argument without proper justification or acknowledgment.
    Kripkean essentialism(the main theory being discussed in the statement)
    A philosophical theory (named after philosopher Saul Kripke) arguing that some properties are essential to what something is—meaning an object couldn't exist without them in any possible scenario.
    Lewis(philosopher who created the similarity metric being discussed)
    David Lewis was a famous American philosopher who developed influential theories about possible worlds—alternative ways reality could have been.

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    Saul Kripke(in 20th-century philosophy)
    An influential modern philosopher who developed new ways of thinking about meaning, necessity, and possibility by using the idea of 'possible worlds.'
    four-dimensionalism(metaphysics of identity and time)
    The philosophical view that objects (including people) are made up of temporal parts or stages, just like a physical object has spatial parts; you exist across time like a movie reel exists as many frames.
    question-begging(Epistemology, anti-skeptical argumentation)
    A charge leveled against anti-skeptical arguments that assume what they set out to prove, particularly in Putnamian externalist arguments

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