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'fragments/reports', 'Nature Without Essence' and 'Remarks on axiomatised set theory'
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail
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Dion and Theon coexist, but Theon lacks a foot. If Dion loses a foot, he ousts Theon? [Chrysippus, by Philo of Alexandria]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition
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Fregean meanings are analogous to conceptual essence, defining a kind [Almog]
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Essential definition aims at existence conditions and structural truths [Almog]
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Surface accounts aren't exhaustive as they always allow unintended twin cases [Almog]
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Definitionalists rely on snapshot-concepts, instead of on the real processes [Almog]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 10. Essence as Species
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Alien 'tigers' can't be tigers if they are not related to our tigers [Almog]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
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Kripke and Putnam offer an intermediary between real and nominal essences [Almog]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Individual essences are just cobbled together classificatory predicates [Almog]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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Change of matter doesn't destroy identity - in Dion and Theon change is a condition of identity [Chrysippus, by Long/Sedley]
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