Full Idea
Some philosophers distinguish between necessary properties and essential properties. This distinction is irrelevant to my purposes. Following Yablo, I shall ignore this distinction in what follows.
Gist of Idea
The distinction between necessary and essential properties can be ignored
Source
Michael della Rocca (Essentialists and Essentialism [1996], I n1)
Book Reference
-: 'Journal of Philosophy' [-], p.186
A Reaction
This is two years after Kit Fine's seminal paper suggesting the distinction is real. The first step towards a good metaphysics is to realise that Della Rocca and Yablo have made a horrible mistake.
Related Idea
Idea 12143 An object having a property essentially is equivalent to its having it necessarily [Brody]