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1. For example, judgments
attributing a logical potential for numerical distinctness to Scott and
the author of Waverley, or discernibility in respect of necessary
oddness to nine and the number of planets.
2. The necessitarian
departs from an (implicitly) phenomenological premise from which no canonical
source of received logical wisdom is likely to demur. According to
this premise, nothing about an individual's structure COULD be relevant
to its logical properties. Thus absolved from the onerous responsibility
of saying what it is about individuals qua individuals that seats
judgments of necessary or contingent identity, the necessitarian opines
that the problem of distinguishing between the two has nothing to do with
identicals, but only with how they are designated. |
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