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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Representation and Reality' and 'Reference and Essence (1st edn)'

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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 5. Reference to Natural Kinds
"Water" is a natural kind term, but "H2O" is a description [Putnam]
Nothing in the direct theory of reference blocks anti-essentialism; water structure might have been different [Salmon,N]