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    The supporting argument's premise that Paul 'might have e... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The property 'being on David's right' is not an individual essence of Paul.

    The supporting argument's premise that Paul 'might have existed' without this property assumes modal separability that essentialists about origins explicitly deny.

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    • 1.Essentialists about origins claim origins are essential to identity, making counterfactuals about different origins logically incoherent.
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    • 2.Modal separability assumes properties can be absent while identity persists—directly contradicting origin essentialism's core commitment.
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    • 3.Arguments assuming Paul could lack origin-properties smuggle in non-essentialist modal logic without justifying it against essentialist constraints.
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    • 1.Even essentialists distinguish between what grounds identity and what counts as logically possible—modal separability challenges the latter, not the former.
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    • 2.The argument conflates 'Paul couldn't exist without property X' with 'we can't coherently imagine Paul without X'—different modal questions.
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    • 3.Essentialists need not deny modal separability applies to non-essential properties; they only deny it for essential ones like origin.
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