Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Antisthenes (Ath), Willard Quine and Alan McMichael

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
14637 Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
10923 Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine]
14636 Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]
14640 Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
10929 Aristotelian essence of the object has become the modern essence of meaning [Quine]
10930 Quantification into modal contexts requires objects to have an essence [Quine]
8482 Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]
12136 Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]
13590 Essences can make sense in a particular context or enquiry, as the most basic predicates [Quine]
14638 Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]