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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates

3357	Democritus denies reality to large objects, because atomic entities can't combine to produce new ones [Benardete,JA on Democritus]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

598	Democritus said that substances could never be mixed, so atoms are the substances [Democritus, by Aristotle]

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

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Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael]

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

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Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]

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Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]

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

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Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]