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Single Idea 15106
[filed under theme 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
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Full Idea
Essence is expressed by grammar. ...Grammar tells us what kind of object anything is.
Gist of Idea
Essence is expressed by grammar
Source
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations [1952], §371-3)
Book Ref
Wittgenstein,Ludwig: 'Philosophical Investigations', ed/tr. Anscombe,E. [Blackwell 1972], p.116
A Reaction
Enigmatic, as usual. The second part seems to imply sortal essentialism, though the emphasis on grammar seems to make it highly conventional, rather than a reflection of 'real' sorts.
The
27 ideas
with the same theme
[essence as belonging to a particular natural kind]:
11188
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The Aristotelian view is that the essential properties are those that sort an object
[Aristotle, by Marcus (Barcan)]
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11196
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Essence is something in common between the natures which sort things into categories
[Aquinas]
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13074
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Only natural kinds and their members have real essences
[Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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17233
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Particulars contain universal things
[Hobbes]
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12530
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The less rational view of essences is that they are moulds for kinds of natural thing
[Locke]
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12532
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Even real essence depends on a sort, since it is sorts which have the properties
[Locke]
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12539
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If every sort has its real essence, one horse, being many sorts, will have many essences
[Locke]
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21218
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The sense of anything contingent has a purely apprehensible essence or Eidos
[Husserl]
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15106
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Essence is expressed by grammar
[Wittgenstein]
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11908
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Putnam bases essences on 'same kind', but same kinds may not share properties
[Mackie,P on Putnam]
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12679
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A real essence is a kind's distinctive properties
[Ellis]
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17055
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Atomic number 79 is part of the nature of the gold we know
[Kripke]
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17523
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Sortals basically apply to individuals
[Ayers]
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15143
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Kind essences are the categorical bases of a thing's causal powers
[Bhaskar, by Chakravartty]
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11895
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A sortal essence is a property which once possessed always possessed
[Brody, by Mackie,P]
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12141
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Maybe essential properties are those which determine a natural kind?
[Brody]
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16509
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Natural kinds are well suited to be the sortals which fix substances
[Wiggins]
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12013
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Essential properties depend on a category, and perhaps also on particular facts
[Forbes,G]
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15678
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Essentialism says categories have a true hidden nature which gives an object its identity
[Gelman]
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15683
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Sortals are needed for determining essence - the thing must be categorised first
[Gelman]
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15697
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Kind (unlike individual) essentialism assumes preexisting natural categories
[Gelman]
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12871
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Objects have their essential properties because of the kind of objects they are
[Simons]
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13129
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Essential kinds may be too specific to provide ontological categories
[Westerhoff]
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11909
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Unlike Hesperus=Phosophorus, water=H2O needs further premisses before it is necessary
[Mackie,P]
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11899
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Why are any sortals essential, and why are only some of them essential?
[Mackie,P]
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15145
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A kind essence is the necessary and sufficient properties for membership of a class
[Chakravartty]
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10939
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'Sortal essentialism' says being a particular kind is what is essential
[Rami]
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