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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'In Defense of Essentialism' and 'Reference and Essence (1st edn)'

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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]

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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

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Essentialism says some properties must be possessed, if a thing is to exist [Salmon,N]

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]