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Ideas of Tuomas E. Tahko, by Text
[Finnish, fl. 2012, At the University of Helsinki.]
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2013
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The Epistemology of Essence (draft)
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p.2
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Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers
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2.1
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p.5
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Scientific essentialists tend to characterise essence in terms of modality (not vice versa)
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2.1
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p.6
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If essence is modal and laws are necessary, essentialist knowledge is found by scientists
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3.2
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p.16
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If conceivability is a priori coherence, that implies possibility
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