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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Word and Object' and 'In Defense of Essentialism'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

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Deep essentialist objects have intrinsic properties that fix their nature; the shallow version makes it contextual [Paul,LA]

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

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Deep essentialists say essences constrain how things could change; modal profiles fix natures [Paul,LA]

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

8482	Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]

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Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]

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Essentialism must deal with charges of arbitrariness, and failure to reduce de re modality [Paul,LA]

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An object's modal properties don't determine its possibilities [Paul,LA]