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If modal tolerance for origins is true, then it is natural to think that it holds at w2 as well.
If modal tolerance for origins is true, it is natural to think that it holds in w1 as well as in the actual world.
Since a was originally made from m, modal tolerance for origins tells us that a could have been manufactured from m1.
This is because, intuitively, modal tolerance for origins is not a claim that simply happens to be true at the actual world, but is something more like a conceptual truth.
Unfortunately this version of the argument (as well as the previous version) faces a problem that arises from the possibility of recycling matter together with the intuition of modal tolerance for origins.
Kripke's original formulations of origin essentialism reflect this intuition of modal tolerance for origins: he says that the wooden table in the room in which he spoke could not have been made from a "completely different block of wood"; similarly, he says that Queen Elizabeth could not have originated from a "totally different sperm and egg" (1972/1980, p. 113, our changes of emphasis).
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And Forbes too has been concerned to allow for some degree of modal tolerance when it comes to an object's origin.
Different tolerance for risk?
Zero tolerance for cheaters!
Zero tolerance for frivolities.
A tolerance for banality helps.
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