Platonic

Questions

Problems

Benefits

Leibnizian

Questions

Problems

Benefits

Lewisian

Questions

Problems

Benefits

Aristotelian

Questions

Problems

Causal Identity Pruss 258

Identities dependence on cause is incredibly silly.
That would mean a number of things, that I could only be born at that time, that no different technological advances could have occurred, that my parents couldn’t have met in some different way. I don’t see how this wouldn’t involve some local determinism.

Trinity? Jesus is not identical with the Father, yet their causal history is the same.

Exactly alike seems to entail too much and isn’t clear.

Benefits

Gives an answer to the problem of a possible world with unjustified evil.

What we want

Possible worlds

Possible worlds, intentionality of propositions

Grounding

Global possibilites and grounding

Why 1=1 is necessary