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'', 'How Things Might Have Been' and 'Of liberty, Fate and God's grace'
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Essentialism must avoid both reduplication of essences, and multiple occupancy by essences [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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An individual essence is the properties the object could not exist without [Mackie,P]
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No other object can possibly have the same individual essence as some object [Mackie,P]
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There are problems both with individual essences and without them [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
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Unlike Hesperus=Phosophorus, water=H2O needs further premisses before it is necessary [Mackie,P]
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Why are any sortals essential, and why are only some of them essential? [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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The complete concept of an individual includes contingent properties, as well as necessary ones [Leibniz]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
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The Kripke and Putnam view of kinds makes them explanatorily basic, but has modal implications [Mackie,P]
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