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    The rigidified property 'actually being on David's right'... — Carmelics
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    The rigidified property 'actually being on David's right' is an individual essence of Paul.

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    • 1.An individual essence is a property that, necessarily, if x exists then x has that property, and necessarily only x has that property.
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    • 2.If Paul is the only person to have the contingent property of being on David's right in the actual world, then the rigidified version of that property belongs necessarily and exclusively to Paul.
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    • 3.The rigidified property 'actually being on David's right' is a necessary property of Paul.
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    • 1.Individual essences must ground cross-world identity independently of any contingent relational facts about the actual world.
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    • 2.The rigidified property 'actually being on David's right' is parasitic on a contingent spatial relation that could have failed to obtain.
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    • 3.A property that depends on contingent actuality for its application cannot serve as the metaphysical basis for necessary identity across worlds.
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    • 1.Kripke's framework distinguishes genuine essential properties from mere logical rigidification of accidental properties via the actuality operator.
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    • 2.Rigidifying a contingent property using 'actually' produces a rigid designator of a property-extension, not an intrinsic essential property of the individual.
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    • 3.Haecceitism, not rigidified relational properties, is the proper theoretical vehicle for individual essences, as argued by Adams and Chisholm.
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    The second response involves moving from contingent properties like those involved in (2) and (3) to necessary properties, and in particular to what, following Plantinga in (1974), we will call an individual essence, which is a property that, necessarily, if x exists, then it has that property and, necessarily, only x has. The property being on David's right is not an individual essence of Paul, as Paul might have existed without having had it and Charles might have had it instead. But it is eas
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