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All the ideas for 'Locke on Essences and Kinds', 'God and Human Attributes' and 'Philosophy'

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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]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First

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Knowledge is beyond question, as an unavoidable component of thinking [Weil]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 1. Defining Art

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Art (like philosophy) establishes a relation between world and self, and between oneself and others [Weil]

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]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument

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God must be fit for worship, but worship abandons morally autonomy, but there is no God [Rachels, by Davies,B]