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Ideas for 'Later Letters to Dedekind', 'Real Essentialism' and 'Empty Names'

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique

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Empiricists gave up 'substance', as unknowable substratum, or reducible to a bundle [Oderberg]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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Essences are real, about being, knowable, definable and classifiable [Oderberg, by PG]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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Nominalism is consistent with individual but not with universal essences [Oderberg]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

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Essentialism is the main account of the unity of objects [Oderberg]

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

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Essence is not explanatory but constitutive [Oderberg]

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

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Properties are not part of an essence, but they flow from it [Oderberg]

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

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Could we replace essence with collections of powers? [Oderberg]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

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Leibniz's Law is an essentialist truth [Oderberg]