Nominalism and the disappearance of the problem of individuation

History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 5:193-204 (2002)
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From what has been said, ‘tis easy to discover, what is so much enquired after, the principium Individuationis, and that ‘tis plain is Existence it self, which determines a Being of any sort to a particular time and place incommunicable to two Beings of the same kind

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Eric M. Rubenstein
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