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'Topics', 'In Defense of Essentialism' and 'Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology'
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence
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Deep essentialist objects have intrinsic properties that fix their nature; the shallow version makes it contextual [Paul,LA]
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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 / 5. Essence as Kind
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The sense of anything contingent has a purely apprehensible essence or Eidos [Husserl]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Deep essentialists say essences constrain how things could change; modal profiles fix natures [Paul,LA]
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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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Imagine an object's properties varying; the ones that won't vary are the essential ones [Husserl, by Vaidya]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Essentialism must deal with charges of arbitrariness, and failure to reduce de re modality [Paul,LA]
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An object's modal properties don't determine its possibilities [Paul,LA]
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