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All the ideas for 'Commentary on 'De Anima'', 'A Serious Proposal to the Ladies I' and 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]

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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 3. A Posteriori Necessary

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How can you show the necessity of an a posteriori necessity, if it might turn out to be false? [Jackson]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

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The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / a. Natural freedom

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If men are born free, are women born slaves? [Astell]