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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa' and 'Human Freedom and Divine choice'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

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The essence is the necessary properties, and the concept includes what is contingent [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

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The properties of an electron can't be explained just as 'clustering' [Chakravartty on Boyd]

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Properties cluster together, either because of intrinsic relations, or because of an underlying process [Boyd, by Chakravartty]