Ideas from 'Nature Without Essence' by Joseph Almog [2010], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Journal of Philosophy' (ed/tr -) [- ,]].

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5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 6. Compactness

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If a concept is not compact, it will not be presentable to finite minds

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / d. Natural numbers

17877

The number series is primitive, not the result of some set theoretic axioms

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition

17872

Definitionalists rely on snapshot-concepts, instead of on the real processes

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Essential definition aims at existence conditions and structural truths

17868

Surface accounts aren't exhaustive as they always allow unintended twin cases

17871

Fregean meanings are analogous to conceptual essence, defining a kind

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 10. Essence as Species

17870

Alien 'tigers' can't be tigers if they are not related to our tigers

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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Kripke and Putnam offer an intermediary between real and nominal essences

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Individual essences are just cobbled together classificatory predicates

18. Thought / C. Content / 5. Twin Earth

17873

Water must be related to water, just as tigers must be related to tigers

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / e. Anti scientific essentialism

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Defining an essence comes no where near giving a thing's nature

17863

Essences promise to reveal reality, but actually drive us away from it