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All the ideas for 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence', 'Goodness and Choice' and 'Commentary on 'Posterior Analytics'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

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Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

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Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

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All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 4. Type Identity

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Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9073	Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same [Barnes,J]

9074	Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature [Barnes,J]

9072	Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities [Barnes,J]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function

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Being a good father seems to depend on intentions, rather than actual abilities [Foot]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 3. Natural Function

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Some words, such as 'knife', have a meaning which involves its function [Foot]