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Full Idea
Kripke and Putnam offer us enhanced essences, still formulable in one short sentence and locally graspable. They offer between Locke's mind-boggling definitive real essence and his mind-friendly but not definitive nominal essence.
Gist of Idea
Kripke and Putnam offer an intermediary between real and nominal essences
Source
Joseph Almog (Nature Without Essence [2010], 04)
Book Ref
-: 'Journal of Philosophy' [-], p.367
A Reaction
The solution is to add a 'deep structure' which serves both ends.