Full Idea
I argue that one cannot make semantical sense out of bare particular anti-essentialism within the framework of standard semantics for modal logic.
Gist of Idea
Bare particular anti-essentialism makes no sense within modal logic semantics
Source
Robert C. Stalnaker (Anti-essentialism [1979], p.71)
Book Reference
Stalnaker,Robert C.: 'Ways a World Might Be' [OUP 2003], p.72
A Reaction
Stalnaker characterises the bare particular view as ANTI-essentialist, because he has defined essence in terms of necessary properties. The bare particular seems to allow the possibility of Aristotle being a poached egg.