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'In Defense of Essentialism', 'Science of Logic' and 'Identity'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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'Substance theorists' take modal properties as primitive, without structure, just falling under a sortal [Paul,LA]
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If an object's sort determines its properties, we need to ask what determines its sort [Paul,LA]
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Substance essentialism says an object is multiple, as falling under various different sortals [Paul,LA]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / b. Sums of parts
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Absolutely unrestricted qualitative composition would allow things with incompatible properties [Paul,LA]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence
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Deep essentialist objects have intrinsic properties that fix their nature; the shallow version makes it contextual [Paul,LA]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Deep essentialists say essences constrain how things could change; modal profiles fix natures [Paul,LA]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Essentialism must deal with charges of arbitrariness, and failure to reduce de re modality [Paul,LA]
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An object's modal properties don't determine its possibilities [Paul,LA]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism
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I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts
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Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object [Noonan]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity
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Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity [Noonan]
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Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law [Noonan]
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Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular [Noonan]
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Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language [Noonan]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law
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Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness [Noonan]
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Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle [Noonan]
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