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Ideas for 'Ethical Studies', 'Word and Object' and 'The Meaning of 'Meaning''

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]
Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]
Putnam smuggles essentialism about liquids into his proof that water must be H2O [Salmon,N on Putnam]