Ideas from 'Some Remarks on Essentialism' by Richard Cartwright [1968], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Philosophical Essays' by Cartwright,Richard [MIT 1987,0-262-53092-9]].
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences
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The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity
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An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind
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