Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Stephen Hetherington, Robert Pasnau and Alan McMichael
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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Aristotelians deny that all necessary properties are essential [Pasnau]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]
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Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]
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