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Haecceity: An Ontological Essay

Haecceity: An Ontological Essay

Rosenkrantz, G. S.

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Series: Philosophical Studies, Book 57

Philosophy

ISBN10: 904814311X
ISBN13: 9789048143115
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 28 2010
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Many contemporary philosophers are interested in the scotistic notion of haecceity or thisness' because it is relevant to important problems concerning identity and individuation, reference, modality, and propositional attitudes. Haecceity is the only book-length work devoted to this topic. The author develops a novel defense of Platonism, arguing, first, that abstracta - nonqualitative haecceities - are needed to explain concreta's being diverse at a time; and second, that unexemplified haecceities are then required to accommodate the full range of cases in which there are possible worlds containing individuals not present in the actual world. In the cognitive area, an original epistemic argument is presented which implies that certain haecceities can be grasped by a person: his own, those of certain of his mental states, and those of various abstracta, but not those of external things. It is argued that in consequence there is a clear sense in which one is directly acquainted with the former entities, but not with external things.

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