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All the ideas for 'Locke on Essences and Kinds', 'Identity in Substances and True Propositions' and 'fragments/reports'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

19405

Substances are in harmony, because they each express the one reality in themselves [Leibniz]

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]

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]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1558	Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus]