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All the ideas for 'Warrant and Proper Function', 'The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims' and 'Commentary on 'Physics''

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing
16587 Prime matter is halfway between non-existence and existence [Averroes]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
14637 Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
14636 Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]
14640 Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
14638 Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]
13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge
6356 Maybe a reliable justification must come from a process working with its 'proper function' [Plantinga, by Pollock/Cruz]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
14639 Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael]