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The two conceptions of individuals, the “normal” and the Leibnizian, can be illuminated by contrasting their applications in the ontological analysis of an example-sentence: “John did not study biology in 1995, but he could have.”
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Meixner, U. (1997). Individuals and Leibniz-Individuals. In: Axiomatic Formal Ontology. Synthese Library, vol 264. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8867-6_44
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