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'Topics', 'In Defense of Essentialism' and 'The Fragmentation of Reason'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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Genus gives the essence better than the differentiae do [Aristotle]
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'Substance theorists' take modal properties as primitive, without structure, just falling under a sortal [Paul,LA]
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If an object's sort determines its properties, we need to ask what determines its sort [Paul,LA]
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Substance essentialism says an object is multiple, as falling under various different sortals [Paul,LA]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / b. Sums of parts
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Absolutely unrestricted qualitative composition would allow things with incompatible properties [Paul,LA]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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In the case of a house the parts can exist without the whole, so parts are not the whole [Aristotle]
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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 / 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 / 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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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 11. End of an Object
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Destruction is dissolution of essence [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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If two things are the same, they must have the same source and origin [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 9. Sameness
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'Same' is mainly for names or definitions, but also for propria, and for accidents [Aristotle]
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Two identical things have the same accidents, they are the same; if the accidents differ, they're different [Aristotle]
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Numerical sameness and generic sameness are not the same [Aristotle]
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