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[filed under theme 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence
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Full Idea
Does Socrates have, in addition to his essential properties, an 'essence' or 'haecceity' - a property essential to him that entails each of his essential properties and that nothing distinct from him has in the world?
Gist of Idea
Does Socrates have essential properties, plus a unique essence (or 'haecceity') which entails them?
Source
Alvin Plantinga (World and Essence [1970], II)
Book Ref
Plantinga,Alvin: 'Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality' [OUP 2003], p.56
A Reaction
Plantinga says yes, and offers 'Socrateity' (borrowed from Boethius) as his candidate. This is a very odd use of the word 'essence'. I take an essence to be a complex set of fundamental properties. I am also puzzled by his use of the word 'entails'.
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[distinctions about how essence should be understood]:
11237
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Only universals have essence
[Plato, by Politis]
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12099
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Aristotelian essences are causal, not classificatory
[Aristotle, by Witt]
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15036
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An essence can either be universal (in the mind) or singular (in concrete particulars)
[Avicenna, by Panaccio]
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11203
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Specific individual essence is defined by material, and generic essence is defined by form
[Aquinas]
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22126
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Avicenna and Duns Scotus say essences have independent and prior existence
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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16038
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Locke may distinguish real essence from internal constitution, claiming the latter is knowable
[Locke, by Jones,J-E]
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5444
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'Individual essences' fix a particular individual, and 'kind essences' fix the kind it belongs to
[Ellis]
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5450
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For Kripke, essence is origin; for Putnam, essence is properties; for Wiggins, essence is membership of a kind
[Kripke, by Mautner]
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14656
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Does Socrates have essential properties, plus a unique essence (or 'haecceity') which entails them?
[Plantinga]
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12066
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Aristotelian and Kripkean essentialism are very different theories
[Witt]
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11152
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Essences are either taken as real definitions, or as necessary properties
[Fine,K]
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14256
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How do we distinguish basic from derived esssences?
[Fine,K]
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14258
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Maybe some things have essential relationships as well as essential properties
[Fine,K]
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15184
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Causal reference presupposes essentialism if it refers to modally extended entities
[Sidelle]
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15681
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Essentialism: real or representational? sortal, causal or ideal? real particulars, or placeholders?
[Gelman]
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14190
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Deep essentialist objects have intrinsic properties that fix their nature; the shallow version makes it contextual
[Paul,LA]
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17313
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Modern views want essences just to individuate things across worlds and times
[Koslicki]
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