Combining Texts
Ideas for
'Exigency to Exist in Essences', 'Letters to Queen Charlotte' and 'How Things Might Have Been'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
8 ideas
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
11889
|
Essentialism must avoid both reduplication of essences, and multiple occupancy by essences [Mackie,P]
|
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
11877
|
An individual essence is the properties the object could not exist without [Mackie,P]
|
11882
|
No other object can possibly have the same individual essence as some object [Mackie,P]
|
11886
|
There are problems both with individual essences and without them [Mackie,P]
|
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
11909
|
Unlike Hesperus=Phosophorus, water=H2O needs further premisses before it is necessary [Mackie,P]
|
11899
|
Why are any sortals essential, and why are only some of them essential? [Mackie,P]
|
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
13189
|
A necessary feature (such as air for humans) is not therefore part of the essence [Leibniz]
|
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
11906
|
The Kripke and Putnam view of kinds makes them explanatorily basic, but has modal implications [Mackie,P]
|