Ideas from 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori' by Frank Jackson [2010], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Modality' (ed/tr Hale,B/Hoffman,A) [OUP 2010,]].
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic?
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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem
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10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary
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How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false?
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