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'Parmenides', 'Essential Attribution' and 'Anti-essentialism'
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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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Essentialist sentences are not theorems of modal logic, and can even be false [Marcus (Barcan)]
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'Essentially' won't replace 'necessarily' for vacuous properties like snub-nosed or self-identical [Marcus (Barcan)]
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'Is essentially' has a different meaning from 'is necessarily', as they often cannot be substituted [Marcus (Barcan)]
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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 / 14. Knowledge of Essences
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If essences are objects with only essential properties, they are elusive in possible worlds [Marcus (Barcan)]
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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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