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Ideas of Alan McMichael, by Text

[American, fl. 1986, At Virginia Polytechnic Institute.]

1986	The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims

Intro

p.33

14637

Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them

Intro

p.33

14636

Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature

I

p.35

14638

Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions

VIII

p.48

14639

Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations

VIII

p.50

14640

Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary?