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All the ideas for 'Locke on Essences and Kinds', 'Essentialists and Essentialism' and 'The Idea of Overlapping Consensus'

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

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The distinction between necessary and essential properties can be ignored [Rocca]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle]

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Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle]

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Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / b. Against communitarianism

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In a pluralist society we can't expect a community united around one conception of the good [Rawls]

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

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Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle]