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Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Scott Soames

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

13969	Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds [Soames]
	Full Idea: By (Kripkean) 'essential' properties and relations I mean simply properties and relations that hold necessarily of objects (in all genuinely possible world-states in which the objects exist).
	From: Scott Soames (Significance of the Kripkean Nec A Posteriori [2006], p.168 n5)
	A reaction: This is the standard modern view of essences which I find so unsatisfactory. Kit Fine has helped to take us back to the proper Aristotelian view, where 'necessary' and 'essential' actually have different meanings. Note the inclusion of relations.