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Ideas of Baruch Brody, by Text
[American, fl. 1980, Professor at Rice University.]
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1980
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Identity and Essence
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p.119
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Brody bases sortal essentialism on properties required throughout something's existence [Mackie,P]
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p.119
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A sortal essence is a property which once possessed always possessed [Mackie,P]
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p.132
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Maybe essential properties are those which determine a natural kind?
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1.2
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p.9
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a and b share all properties; so they share being-identical-with-a; so a = b
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3
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p.43
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Indiscernibility is a necessary and sufficient condition for identity
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4.1
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p.80
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Interrupted objects have two first moments of existence, which could be two beginnings
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5.4
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p.103
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De re essentialism standardly says all possible objects identical with a have a's essential properties
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5.4
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p.111
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Identity across possible worlds is prior to rigid designation
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5.6
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p.128
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Mereological essentialism says that every part that ensures the existence is essential
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5.6
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p.131
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Modern emphasis is on properties had essentially; traditional emphasis is on sort-defining properties
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p.135
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Essentially, a has P, always had P, must have had P, and has never had a future without P
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6.1
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p.136
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An object having a property essentially is equivalent to its having it necessarily
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6.3
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p.152
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Essentialism is justified if the essential properties of things explain their other properties
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