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Ideas for 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence', 'Isolation and Non-arbitrary Division' and 'Metaphysics: the logical approach'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

3350	Could a horse lose the essential property of being a horse, and yet continue to exist? [Benardete,JA]

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

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All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe]

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

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Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe]