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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What is the Source of Knowledge of Modal Truths?' and 'Letters to De Vries'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition

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Grasping an essence is just grasping a real definition [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

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Explanation can't give an account of essence, because it is too multi-faceted [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

4869	Experience does not teach us any essences of things [Spinoza]

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If we must know some entity to know an essence, we lack a faculty to do that [Lowe]