haecceitist
/hɛkˈsiːətɪst/
haecceitist noun: one who subscribes to haecceitism.
Noun
haecceitist (plural haecceitists)
- One who subscribes to haecceitism.
- Probably, most of us are Haecceitists with respect to most things through time, but the very inaccessibility of other possible worlds seems to have produced a goodly number of Anti-Haecceitists with respect to trans-world identifications. Even when their quantified modal logics look Haecceitistic...1975 November 6, David Kaplan, “How to Russell a Frege–Church”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 72, number 19, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 723
- Here we find the dividing line between Haecceitism and anti-Haecceitism. The Haecceitist holds that members of each pair differ from each other. The anti-Haecceitist denies this. This has a consequence for Combinatorialism. The anti-Haecceitist Combinatorialist will countenance fewer possible...1989, D[avid] M[alet] Armstrong, A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 58–59
Examples of haecceitist in a sentence
- Even when their quantified modal logics look Haecceitistic, their pre-systematic remarks may explain the so-called identities as a manner of speaking.1975 November 6, David Kaplan, “How to Russell a Frege–Church”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 72, number 19, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 723:
- The Haecceitist holds that members of each pair differ from each other.1989, D[avid] M[alet] Armstrong, A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 58–59:
- But a naive haecceitist would assert that when he perceives an external object he has a self-evident intuition that he grasps the haecceity of that object.1993, G[ary] S. Rosenkrantz, Haecceity: An Ontological Essay [Philosophical Studies series; vol. 57], Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic...
- I called this position anti-haecceitist.1997, D[avid] M[alet] Armstrong, A World of States of Affairs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108:
Forms of haecceitist
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Origin of haecceitist
From haecceitism + -ist.
Questions about haecceitist
- What does haecceitist mean?
- Haecceitist means one who subscribes to haecceitism.
- How do you use haecceitist in a sentence?
- Even when their quantified modal logics look Haecceitistic, their pre-systematic remarks may explain the so-called identities as a manner of speaking.
- What part of speech is haecceitist?
- Haecceitist is a noun.
- How do you pronounce haecceitist?
- Haecceitist is pronounced /hɛkˈsiːətɪst/.
- What is the plural of haecceitist?
- The plural of haecceitist is haecceitists.
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