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All the ideas for 'Leibniz', 'Wang's Paradox' and 'The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
21628 To say reality itself is vague is not properly intelligible [Dummett]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
14637 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
14636 Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]
14640 Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
14638 Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
7566 The Identity of Indiscernibles is really the same as the verification principle [Jolley]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
14639 Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael]