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Ideas of Scott Shalkowski, by Text
[British, fl. 1994, Lecturer at the University of Leeds.]
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1994
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Ontological Ground of Alethic Modality
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3.9
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p.196
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Lewis must specify that all possibilities are in his worlds, making the whole thing circular [Sider]
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'Ess and Know'
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p.59
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Critics say that essences are too mysterious to be known
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'Ess and Know'
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p.60
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14226
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We distinguish objects by their attributes, not by their essences
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'Essent'
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p.49
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14222
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Essences are what it is to be that (kind of) thing - in fact, they are the thing's identity
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'Essent'
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p.51
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14223
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De dicto necessity has linguistic entities as their source, so it is a type of de re necessity
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'Intro'
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p.49
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14221
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Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities
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'Serious'
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p.53
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Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection
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