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In this and the following sections I shall proceed as in the foregoing.
I. Every man has in himself a principle of individuation, which distinguishes and separates him from all other men, in such a manner as may render him and them capable of distinct properties in things (or distinct subjects of property). That is: B and C are so distinguished, or exist so distinctly, that if there be anything which B can call his, it will be for that reason not C's; and, vice versa, what is C's will for that reason not be B's. The proof of this I put upon every man's own conscience. Let us see, then, whether there is anything which one man may truly call his.