He believes that having transworld individuals is perfectly ok.
Who is Plantinga
100
In substratum theory, what accounts for the unchanging identity of an object while its properties change?
What is the substratum
100
These philosophers believe it is impossible to give a noncircular account of the identity conditions of properties, kinds, and relations
What are Nominalists
200
A:"These two chairs exemplify all the same properties!"
B: "They cannot exemplify the same properties."
A: How is that?"
What is Identity of Indiscernibles
200
A ship in ancient Greece is recreated over time by replacing every single board. Who's ship is it?
What is the Ship of Theseus
200
Aristotelian realists and Platonists are severely divided on this issue.
What is unexemplified universals
300
The transworld individual exists long after the life of the contingent being has been exhausted. Why is this?
What are uninstantiated properties
300
How does Plantinga's use of transworld individuals in his possible world actualism not violate the indiscernability of identicals? (2 part answer)
What is (1) appeal to world indexed properties (2) existence does not equal actuality
300
According to the Philosophy of Universals _____ are derivative; when two objects ____ each other it is because they each have the same universals.
What is resemblances; resemble
400
In this world I am a student, in this world I am a baker, in this world I am Abraham Lincoln the vampire slayer.
What is a Transworld Individual
400
Is the identity of indiscernables or the indiscernability of identicals thought to be trivial? Write down (the trivial one) in predicate logic notation
What is indiscernability of identicals
a=b--->∀F(Fa<-->Fb)
400
Sentences that makes use of ____ reference are made true by claiming that these terms identify ____.
What is abstract;universals
500
There is a necessary being that exists which the contingent world depends upon for instantiation.
What is Plantinga's reason for our world's actualization
500
Problem of competing identity conditions of a universal (Platonic Universalism) [what makes the Red Form red] The identity conditions of the form are ______
What is regressive
500
To avoid the contradiction implicit in the Philosophy of Universals (i.e., that universality must be treated as a universal) proponents of this view must introduce the notion of different ____of universals.