Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Augustus De Morgan and Willard Quine

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine]

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

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Aristotelian essence of the object has become the modern essence of meaning [Quine]

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Quantification into modal contexts requires objects to have an essence [Quine]

8482	Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]

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Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]

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Essences can make sense in a particular context or enquiry, as the most basic predicates [Quine]