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Mind 2004 113(452):705-725; doi:10.1093/mind/113.452.705
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A New Route to the Necessity of Origin

Guy Rohrbaugh1 and Louis deRosset2

1 Auburn University, Haley Center 6080, Auburn AL 36849, USA rohrbgn{at}auburn.edu 2 UCLA Department of Philosophy, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90095-1451, USA derosset{at}humnet.ucla.edu

Saul Kripke has claimed that there are necessary connections between material things and their material origins. The usual defences of such necessity of origin theses appeal to either a sufficiency of origin principle or a branching-times model of necessity. In this paper we offer a different defence. Our argument proceeds from more modest ‘independence principles’, which govern the processes by which material objects are produced. Independence principles are motivated, in turn, by appeal to a plausible metaphysical principle governing such processes, their invulnerability to non-local prevention. We outline the new argument, and distinguish it from both of the usual defences.


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