Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Edmund Husserl, Barbara Vetter and Adam Gopnik

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition

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Real definition fits abstracta, but not individual concrete objects like Socrates [Vetter]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

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The sense of anything contingent has a purely apprehensible essence or Eidos [Husserl]

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

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Modal accounts make essence less mysterious, by basing them on the clearer necessity [Vetter]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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Imagine an object's properties varying; the ones that won't vary are the essential ones [Husserl, by Vaidya]