Ideas from 'Essence and Being' by Scott Shalkowski [2008], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics' (ed/tr Le Poidevin,R) [CUP 2008,978-0-521-73544-5]].
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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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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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
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We distinguish objects by their attributes, not by their essences
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Critics say that essences are too mysterious to be known
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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality
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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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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 7. Extensional Semantics
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Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection
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