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All the ideas for 'Some Remarks on Essentialism', 'Leibniz:Body,Substance,Monad' and 'What is an Idea?'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

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Epicurean atomists say body is sensible, to distinguish it from space. [Garber]

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]

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

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By an 'idea' I mean not an actual thought, but the resources we can draw on to think [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / g. Atomism

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Epicurean atoms are distinguished by their extreme hardness [Garber]