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Counterpart Theory

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Counterpart theory is David Lewis's alternative to the doctrine of transworld identity. Where Saul Kripke holds that an individual exists in multiple possible worlds — the same person, the same object, stretched across the modal universe — Lewis denies this. On his view, no individual exists in more than one world. What makes it true that I