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'Ethical Studies', 'Word and Object' and 'Some Remarks on Essentialism'
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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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Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]
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Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]
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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]
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