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'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori' and 'Ontology'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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An object is a predication subject, distinguished by a distinctive combination of properties [Jacquette]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta
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Numbers, sets and propositions are abstract particulars; properties, qualities and relations are universals [Jacquette]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition
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Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]
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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]
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