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Ideas for 'works', 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 3: Memory' and 'What is the Source of Knowledge of Modal Truths?'

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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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition

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Grasping an essence is just grasping a real definition [Lowe]

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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

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Explanation can't give an account of essence, because it is too multi-faceted [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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If we must know some entity to know an essence, we lack a faculty to do that [Lowe]