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All the ideas for '27: Book of Daniel', 'thirty titles (lost)' and 'Some Remarks on Essentialism'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

594	Speusippus suggested underlying principles for every substance, and ended with a huge list [Speussipus, by Aristotle]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

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Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

13953

An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

2632	Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

7482	Resurrection developed in Judaism as a response to martyrdoms, in about 160 BCE [Anon (Dan), by Watson]