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Ideas for 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed', 'Sameness and Substance' and 'Aristotle on Essence and Explanation'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

16509

Natural kinds are well suited to be the sortals which fix substances [Wiggins]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

11993

Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / c. Essentials are necessary

11997

A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung]

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

11992

Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 11. Essence of Artefacts

16514

Artefacts are individuated by some matter having a certain function [Wiggins]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

16510

Nominal essences don't fix membership, ignore evolution, and aren't contextual [Wiggins]