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All the ideas for 'Elucidation of some points in E.Schröder', 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence' and 'External and Internal Relations'

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8 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]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / b. Empty (Null) Set

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A class is an aggregate of objects; if you destroy them, you destroy the class; there is no empty class [Frege]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations

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A relation is internal if two things possessing the relation could not fail to be related [Moore,GE, by Heil]

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]