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Ideas for 'Topics', 'A world of truthmakers?' and 'The Disorder of Things'

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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 / 8. Essence as Explanatory

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Natural kinds don't need essentialism to be explanatory [Dupré]

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

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A species might have its essential genetic mechanism replaced by a new one [Dupré]

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It seems that species lack essential properties, so they can't be natural kinds [Dupré]