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I n1
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p.186
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The distinction between necessary and essential properties can be ignored
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Full Idea:
Some philosophers distinguish between necessary properties and essential properties. This distinction is irrelevant to my purposes. Following Yablo, I shall ignore this distinction in what follows.
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From:
Michael della Rocca (Essentialists and Essentialism [1996], I n1)
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A reaction:
This is two years after Kit Fine's seminal paper suggesting the distinction is real. The first step towards a good metaphysics is to realise that Della Rocca and Yablo have made a horrible mistake.
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