It's a "few origins" versus "many origins" argument.
It is the unmodified essence of Charles Darwin's original argument in "The Origin of Species," accepted by scientists today not as dogma but as a theory with a century and a half of accumulated research to support it.
Sexual selection the selection of females by males or vice versa for breeding purposes—had played a minor role in the original argument of the Origin, and its importance was denied by contemporaries like A. R. Wallace.
These objections may seem to provide sufficient grounds for rejecting the Kripkean argument and perhaps restricting the application of Kripke's original argument for the necessity of origin (Noonan 1983).
In addition to the position held almost solely by Azerbaijani historians that much of Artsakh at the time was under heavy Caucasian Albanian influence, they also contend that the population and monuments were not Armenian but Caucasian Albanian in origin (this argument has also been employed against Armenian monuments in the region of Nakhichevan).
But there is another half and that other half consists in two distinct yet related arguments about first, a hydrothermal origin of life (argument B), and second, a prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition taking place after the origin of mitochondria (argument C).
The origin of this argument behind the scenes at the Court was the very question of when life begins.
There was another group of theorists who were instrumental in laying out the origin of mass arguments that included Hagen, Guralnik, and Kibble that are probably a bit bummed out as there could only be less than three winners.
Theses of this kind play a notable role in certain essentialist arguments—e.g., in certain arguments for origin essentialism but it remains unclear how such principles might be used to offer a non-question-begging argument against haecceitism.
Forbes (1997, p. 528) responds in a similar way when confronted with an analogous challenge to the sufficiency premise involved in his argument for origin essentialism.
