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All the ideas for 'Locke on Essences and Kinds', 'Hat-Tricks and Heaps' and 'What Does It All Mean?'

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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')

9117	The smallest heap has four objects: three on the bottom, one on the top [Hart,WD, by Sorensen]

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

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Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle]

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

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

4001	The meaning of a word contains all its possible uses as well as its actual ones [Nagel]

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]