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Rave Concerning Subjective Counterfactuals (pt. 4)

I need to recap and summarize what has gone before prior to proceeding, but I first need to clarify what I mean by personal essence. One could simply go through the blogs on Quiddities and Haecceities, but even that doe…
Rave Concerning Subjective Counterfactuals (pt. 2)

Last time placed a number of bullet points that seem relevant to the question of whether subjective counterfactuals make sense. The first point was, What in the actual world corresponds to a personal essence? Loosely s…
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceities, pt. 9

It has been a month and the transporter-accident illustration is still bothering me. In fact, this entire rave is going places that I had not anticipated. Let recap and vary the illustration a bit. Lieutenant William …
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceities, pt. 8

Over the past couple weeks, I've come up with some new objections to idea of a haecceity as a supervening property. One objection is that such a notion still doesn't answer the mereological problem raise by the likes…
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceities, pt. 7

So, last time I left off with a catalog (admittedly incomplete) of ways to look at the relationship between mind and body. I will admit from the start that something like either Thomistic Dual-aspect theory (V) or Multi…
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceities, pt. 6

Alright, so lets approach things from a different angle. What this whole series of raves has assumed is that one is talking about one's self the “thing” referred to is “the whole ball of wax.” That is to say, that w…
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceties, pt. 5

I have two main problems with what had a notion of identity that I had worked on in passing for a number of years. Ideas, even supremely bad ones, are powerful things not easily dismissed by those who have given them sa…
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceties, pt. 4

Over ten years ago I was discussing a very similar topic (or perhaps the same topic from a different angle) on the Society of Christian Philosopher’s discussion list. My concern was the following, let us say that Charli…
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceties, pt. 3

I have stated elsewhere that modal logic (or at least possible-world talk) serves more as a negative test to metaphysical ideas than as a demonstration of a given position. In the previous rave, I presented a very brief…
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceties, pt. 2

A problem with counterfactuals (there are others, but we shall leave them aside) is tied with the ancient problem of how some object can be the identical while undergoing some change or being different from how it in fac…