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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: A rock implements every FSA
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Date: 6 Apr 92 15:39:37 GMT
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In article <6740@pkmab.se> 
ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes:

>In article <1992Apr1.103814.10555@husc3.harvard.edu>
>zeleny@widder.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes: 

>>In article <6728@pkmab.se> 
>>ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes:

KE:
> >>Pardon me for asking, but what is "haecceitism"?

MZ:
> >As I defined it in a previous article, haecceitism (in the sense of Kaplan)
> >is the doctrine that holds that the question of transworld identity of a...

KE:
>Why is it called "haecceitism"? The word has a somewhat unusual appearance.

This term was originally coined by Robert M. Adams @ UCLA.  In Scholastic
terminology, pace Duns Scotus, haecceity is the quality of "thisness,
hereness, and nowness", or spatiotemporal, ostensively determined
individuality.

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