Ideas from 'Essence and Being' by Scott Shalkowski [2008], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics' (ed/tr Le Poidevin,R) [CUP 2008,978-0-521-73544-5]].

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

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Essences are what it is to be that (kind of) thing - in fact, they are the thing's identity

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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We distinguish objects by their attributes, not by their essences

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

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Critics say that essences are too mysterious to be known

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

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De dicto necessity has linguistic entities as their source, so it is a type of de re necessity

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 7. Extensional Semantics

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Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection