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'works', 'Nature Without Essence' and 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism'
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Kripke and others have made essentialism once again respectable [Ellis]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence
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'Individual essences' fix a particular individual, and 'kind essences' fix the kind it belongs to [Ellis]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition
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Fregean meanings are analogous to conceptual essence, defining a kind [Almog]
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Essential definition aims at existence conditions and structural truths [Almog]
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Surface accounts aren't exhaustive as they always allow unintended twin cases [Almog]
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Definitionalists rely on snapshot-concepts, instead of on the real processes [Almog]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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Essential properties are usually quantitatively determinate [Ellis]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 10. Essence as Species
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Alien 'tigers' can't be tigers if they are not related to our tigers [Almog]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
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Kripke and Putnam offer an intermediary between real and nominal essences [Almog]
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'Real essence' makes it what it is; 'nominal essence' makes us categorise it a certain way [Ellis]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Individual essences are just cobbled together classificatory predicates [Almog]
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