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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letter to Bramhall' and 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 4: Conception'

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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

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A chair is wood, and its shape is the form; it isn't 'compounded' of the matter and form [Hobbes]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition

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Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid]

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

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Essence is just an artificial word from logic, giving a way of thinking about substances [Hobbes]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / b. Conceivable but impossible

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Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar]

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

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

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

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Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference

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A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid]