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'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
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Natural kinds are well suited to be the sortals which fix substances [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
11993
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Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / c. Essentials are necessary
11997
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A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
11992
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Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 11. Essence of Artefacts
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Artefacts are individuated by some matter having a certain function [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
16510
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Nominal essences don't fix membership, ignore evolution, and aren't contextual [Wiggins]
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