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'Aristotle and Descartes on Matter', 'Mere Possibilities' and 'The Logic of What Might Have Been'
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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'Socrates is essentially human' seems to say nothing could be Socrates if it was not human [Stalnaker]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Any property is attached to anything in some possible world, so I am a radical anti-essentialist [Salmon,N]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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The bundle theory makes the identity of indiscernibles a necessity, since the thing is the properties [Stalnaker]
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