We can clarify Chisholm’s Paradox as a particular schema of modal inference. This schema involves a two-place predicate that relates an individual and either their actual qualitative properties (represented as \(p_{1})\) or their possible qualitative properties (represented as successors up to \(p_{n})\), where differences between \(p_{X}\) and \(p_{X+1}\) are small increments of qualitative properties. In this way, Chisholm’s Paradox purports to establish that a particular individual might have had different qualitative properties and, through iteration and the transitivity of identity, that it might have had precisely the qualitative properties some other individual actually has. Following Salmon (1986) and Forbes (1984), we can present Chisholm’s Paradox as follows: