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Ideas for 'Function and Concept', 'The Eumenides' and 'Nature Without Essence'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought

8489	The concept 'object' is too simple for analysis; unlike a function, it is an expression with no empty place [Frege]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition

17871

Fregean meanings are analogous to conceptual essence, defining a kind [Almog]

17866

Essential definition aims at existence conditions and structural truths [Almog]

17868

Surface accounts aren't exhaustive as they always allow unintended twin cases [Almog]

17872

Definitionalists rely on snapshot-concepts, instead of on the real processes [Almog]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 10. Essence as Species

17870

Alien 'tigers' can't be tigers if they are not related to our tigers [Almog]

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

17869

Kripke and Putnam offer an intermediary between real and nominal essences [Almog]

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

17876

Individual essences are just cobbled together classificatory predicates [Almog]