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Ideas of Irving M. Copi, by Text
[American, 1917 - 2002, Professor at the University of Michigan, and then the Univesity of Hawaii.]
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1954
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Essence and Accident
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p.6
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Essential properties are the 'deepest' ones which explain the others [Rami]
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p.707-8
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p.707
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12303
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Within the four types of change, essential attributes are those whose loss means destruction
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p.715
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p.715
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12307
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Modern science seeks essences, and is getting closer to them
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p.716
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p.716
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12308
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In modern science, nominal essence is intended to be real essence
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p.717
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p.717
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12310
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Real essences are scientifically knowable, but so are non-essential properties
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p.718
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p.718
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12312
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The real essence of a thing is its powers, or 'dispositional properties'
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