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All the ideas for 'Issues of Pragmaticism', 'Response to Slote' and 'works'

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4 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

13074

Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

19087

The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique

7101	Virtue theory needs an external standard to judge behaviour and character [Inwagen, by Statman]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

7563	The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley]