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    Trump-qua-husband and Trump-qua-President are distinct re... — Carmelics
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    Trump-qua-husband and Trump-qua-President are distinct real objects of thought that are nonetheless both properties (metaphysical parts) of Donald Trump.

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    • 1.Qua-objects are intentional objects consisting of tropes or accidents that are metaphysical parts of the base object.
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    • 2.Trump-qua-husband and Trump-qua-President are distinct qua-modified noun phrases picking out different tropes of Donald Trump.
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    • 3.Being a metaphysical part of a base object entails being a property of that base object.
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    • 1.Relative identity theorists (Geach, Griffin) hold that identity is always under a sortal, so 'Trump-qua-husband' and 'Trump-qua-President' are not distinct objects but the same object under different descriptions.
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    • 2.If qua-objects were genuinely distinct real objects, Trump would have numerically many selves, violating the mereological principle that coincident objects of the same kind are identical.
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    • 1.Frege's context principle entails that qua-modifications are linguistic or semantic devices, not indicators of distinct metaphysical parts in the object itself.
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    • 2.If 'Trump-qua-husband' picks out a real metaphysical part, then every predicate true of Trump generates a distinct entity, collapsing into an implausible proliferation of entities rejected by Ockham's razor.
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    Rob Koons (2018) constructs an account inspired by Aquinas, Augustine, and recent work on “qua-objects” by Fine and by Asher. Following the latter, Koons understands “qua-modified noun phrases as picking out intentional objects consisting of tropes or accidents, metaphysical parts of the base object” (346). Koons holds that even everyday objects imply the existence of such intentional objects, i.e. things that can be thought. Thus, we can distinguish Trump-qua-husband from Trump-qua-President; w
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