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All the ideas for 'Locke on Essences and Kinds', 'What We Owe to Each Other' and 'Ambitious, yet modest, Metaphysics'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

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Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber]

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]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

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Right and wrong concerns what other people cannot reasonably reject [Scanlon]

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]