whose personhood is arbitrarily and unjustly denied. Recent attempts to detach legal from biological identity certainly display the character imprinted at that particular font of iniquity.74 However, the radical autonomy claim that I am whoever I say I am, whatever else it is, is the ripened fruit of nominalism and voluntarism. For nominalism, which began by insisting that a nature is something sovereignly attributed to some particular thing by the mind, has inevitably worked its way around to denying