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'Topics', 'Nature and Utility of Religion' and 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori'
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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]
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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]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]
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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]
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