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'Defending the Axioms', 'In Defense of Absolute Essentialism' and 'Identity'
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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A property is essential iff the object would not exist if it lacked that property [Forbes,G]
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Properties are trivially essential if they are not grounded in a thing's specific nature [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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A relation is essential to two items if it holds in every world where they exist [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / c. Essentials are necessary
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Trivially essential properties are existence, self-identity, and de dicto necessities [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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A property is 'extraneously essential' if it is had only because of the properties of other objects [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 11. Essence of Artefacts
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One might be essentialist about the original bronze from which a statue was made [Forbes,G]
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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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