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All the ideas for 'Locke on Essences and Kinds', 'The Actual and the Possible' and 'Of Human Freedom'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

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Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle]

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Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle]

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Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

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A state of affairs is only possible if there has been an actual substance to initiate it [Pruss]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

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We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

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Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

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Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle]