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All the ideas for 'Reply to 'Rorarius' 2nd ed', 'The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims' and 'The Same F'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael]

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

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Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]

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Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]

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

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Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Statements of 'relative identity' are really statements of resemblance [Perry]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals

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Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time

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Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz]