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'works', 'Nature Without Essence' and 'Action, Reasons and Causes'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta
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The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR on Plato]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology [Plato, by Koslicki]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
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Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics [Plato, by Koslicki]
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Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object [Plato, by Koslicki]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
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Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies [Plato, by Aristotle]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist [Plato, by Koslicki]
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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 / 4. Essence as Definition
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Fregean meanings are analogous to conceptual essence, defining a kind [Almog]
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Essential definition aims at existence conditions and structural truths [Almog]
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Surface accounts aren't exhaustive as they always allow unintended twin cases [Almog]
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Definitionalists rely on snapshot-concepts, instead of on the real processes [Almog]
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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 / 10. Essence as Species
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Alien 'tigers' can't be tigers if they are not related to our tigers [Almog]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
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Kripke and Putnam offer an intermediary between real and nominal essences [Almog]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Individual essences are just cobbled together classificatory predicates [Almog]
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