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'works', 'The Facts of Causation' and 'Anti-essentialism'
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence
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Only universals have essence [Plato, by Politis]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is [Plato, by Politis]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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An essential property is one had in all the possible worlds where a thing exists [Stalnaker]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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Necessarily self-identical, or being what it is, or its world-indexed properties, aren't essential [Stalnaker]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Bare particular anti-essentialism makes no sense within modal logic semantics [Stalnaker]
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