Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Locke on Essences and Kinds', 'Categories' and 'Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

6 ideas

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 8. Category Mistake / a. Category mistakes

18004

We can't do philosophy without knowledge of types and categories [Ryle]

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

15642

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

15645

Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle]

15643

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

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

14739

'Water' is two-dimensionally inconstant, with different intensions in different worlds [Chalmers, by Sider]

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

15641

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