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Ideas of Antony Eagle, by Text

[British, fl. 2010, At Exeter College, Oxford.]

2005	Locke on Essences and Kinds

II

p.2

15641

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

IV

p.4

15642

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

IV

p.5

15645

Nominal essence are the observable properties of things

IV

p.5

15643

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