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'Conditionals', 'Some Remarks on Essentialism' and 'Metaphysics: the logical approach'
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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Why should packed-together particles be a thing (Mt Everest), but not scattered ones? [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Could a horse lose the essential property of being a horse, and yet continue to exist? [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences
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The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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If a soldier continues to exist after serving as a soldier, does the wind cease to exist after it ceases to blow? [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers
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One can step into the same river twice, but not into the same water [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity
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An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity
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Absolutists might accept that to exist is relative, but relative to what? How about relative to itself? [Benardete,JA]
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Maybe self-identity isn't existence, if Pegasus can be self-identical but non-existent [Benardete,JA]
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