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'De Corpore (Elements, First Section)', 'The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims' and 'Second Commentary on 'Isagoge''
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
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Particulars contain universal things [Hobbes]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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Some accidental features are permanent, unless the object perishes [Hobbes]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]
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Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
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The feature which picks out or names a thing is usually called its 'essence' [Hobbes]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]
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