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Ideas for 'Brainstorms:Essays on Mind and Psychology', 'New Essays on Human Understanding' and 'Nature Without Essence'

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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism

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Qualities should be predictable from the nature of the subject [Leibniz]

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Gold has a real essence, unknown to us, which produces its properties [Leibniz]

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Part of our idea of gold is its real essence, which is not known to us in detail [Leibniz]

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 [Almog]

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