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Ideas for 'The Sayings of Confucius', 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori' and 'The Meaning of 'Meaning''

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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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Putnam smuggles essentialism about liquids into his proof that water must be H2O [Salmon,N on Putnam]

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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]