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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Essence and Being' and 'Theaetetus'

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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

2084	If a word has no parts and has a single identity, it turns out to be the same kind of thing as a letter [Plato]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

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A sum is that from which nothing is lacking, which is a whole [Plato]

15843

The whole can't be the parts, because it would be all of the parts, which is the whole [Plato]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities [Shalkowski]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

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Essences are what it is to be that (kind of) thing - in fact, they are the thing's identity [Shalkowski]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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We distinguish objects by their attributes, not by their essences [Shalkowski]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Critics say that essences are too mysterious to be known [Shalkowski]