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Single Idea 10934
[filed under theme 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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Full Idea
It is easy to confuse the notion of an essential property that a thing could not lack, with a property it could not lose. My having spent Christmas 2007 in Tennessee is a non-essential property I could not lose.
Gist of Idea
Unlosable properties are not the same as essential properties
Source
Adolph Rami (Essential vs Accidental Properties [2008], §1)
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.5
A Reaction
The idea that having spent Christmas in Tennessee is a property I find quite bewildering. Is my not having spent my Christmas in Tennessee one of my properties? I suspect that real unlosable properties are essential ones.
The
21 ideas
from Adolph Rami
10938
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The extremes of essentialism are that all properties are essential, or only very trivial ones
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10934
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Unlosable properties are not the same as essential properties
[Rami]
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10933
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Physical possibility is part of metaphysical possibility which is part of logical possibility
[Rami]
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10932
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If it is possible 'for all I know' then it is 'epistemically possible'
[Rami]
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10939
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'Sortal essentialism' says being a particular kind is what is essential
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10940
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An 'individual essence' is possessed uniquely by a particular object
[Rami]
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18333
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Central idea: truths need truthmakers; and possibly all truths have them, and makers entail truths
[Rami]
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18335
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There are five problems which the truth-maker theory might solve
[Rami]
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18334
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The truth-maker idea is usually justified by its explanatory power, or intuitive appeal
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18339
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The truth-making relation can be one-to-one, or many-to-many
[Rami]
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18340
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It seems best to assume different kinds of truth-maker, such as objects, facts, tropes, or events
[Rami]
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18336
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Internal relations depend either on the existence of the relata, or on their properties
[Rami]
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18338
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Truth-making is usually internalist, but the correspondence theory is externalist
[Rami]
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18337
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Correspondence theories assume that truth is a representation relation
[Rami]
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18341
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Truth-makers seem to be states of affairs (plus optional individuals), or individuals and properties
[Rami]
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18342
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Most theorists say that truth-makers necessitate their truths
[Rami]
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18343
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Maybe a truth-maker also works for the entailments of the given truth
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18346
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'Truth supervenes on being' only gives necessary (not sufficient) conditions for contingent truths
[Rami]
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18345
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'Truth supervenes on being' avoids entities as truth-makers for negative truths
[Rami]
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18347
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Deflationist truth is an infinitely disjunctive property
[Rami]
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18350
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Truth-maker theorists should probably reject the converse Barcan formula
[Rami]
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