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Ideas for 'Writing the Book of the World', 'Transworld Heir Lines' and 'Three Grades of Modal Involvement'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
Essence (even if nonmodal) is not fundamental in metaphysics [Sider]