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All the ideas for 'Locke on Essences and Kinds', 'Physiologia' and 'Examination of Sir Wm Hamilton's Philosophy'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

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The quantity is just the matter, in that it has extended parts and is diffuse [Charleton]

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 / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

3583	External objects are permanent possibilities of sensation [Mill]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy

3537	I judge others' feeling by analogy with my body and behaviour [Mill]

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]