Combining Texts
Ideas for
'fragments/reports', 'The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims' and 'Actualism and Possible Worlds'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
5 ideas
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
14666
|
Socrates is a contingent being, but his essence is not; without Socrates, his essence is unexemplified [Plantinga]
|
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
14637
|
Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael]
|
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
14636
|
Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]
|
14640
|
Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]
|
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
14638
|
Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]
|