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Ideas for 'Conditionals', 'Aristotle on Essence and Explanation' and 'Disputationes metaphysicae'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

11993

Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / c. Essentials are necessary

11997

A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

11992

Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

16742

We only know essences through non-essential features, esp. those closest to the essence [Suárez]