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Ideas for 'Topics', 'Locke on Essences and Kinds' and 'Truth'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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Everything that is has one single essence [Aristotle]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

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An 'idion' belongs uniquely to a thing, but is not part of its essence [Aristotle]

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

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If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle]

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Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle]

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Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle]