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Ideas of Alan McMichael, by Text
[American, fl. 1986, At Virginia Polytechnic Institute.]
1986
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The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims
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Intro
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p.33
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Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them
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Intro
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p.33
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14636
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Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature
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I
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p.35
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14638
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Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions
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VIII
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p.48
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14639
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Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations
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VIII
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p.50
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14640
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Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary?
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