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All the ideas for 'Varieties of Causation', 'Identity through Possible Worlds' and 'The Therapy of Desire'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts

8443	Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]

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

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If there are essential properties, how do you find out what they are? [Chisholm]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

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Could possible Adam gradually transform into Noah, and vice versa? [Chisholm]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

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Philosophers after Aristotle endorsed the medical analogy for eudaimonia [Nussbaum, by Flanagan]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation

8442	What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

8445	The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa]

8444	Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa]