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Ideas of Antony Eagle, by Text
[British, fl. 2010, At Exeter College, Oxford.]
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Locke on Essences and Kinds
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II
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p.2
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Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing
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IV
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p.4
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If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind
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IV
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p.5
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Nominal essence are the observable properties of things
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IV
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p.5
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Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances
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