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Ideas for 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori', 'Logic for Philosophy' and '06: Romans'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]

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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

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The identity of indiscernibles is necessarily true, if being a member of some set counts as a property [Sider]