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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', '26: Oracles in Decline' and 'Some Remarks on Essentialism'

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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object

6019	If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus]

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

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Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R]

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

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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]

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

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An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

5958	The sun is always bright; it doesn't become bright when it emerges [Plutarch]