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'fragments/reports', 'The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims' and 'Vagueness, Truth and Logic'
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail
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Dion and Theon coexist, but Theon lacks a foot. If Dion loses a foot, he ousts Theon? [Chrysippus, by Philo of Alexandria]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects
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Vagueness can be in predicates, names or quantifiers [Fine,K]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]
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Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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Change of matter doesn't destroy identity - in Dion and Theon change is a condition of identity [Chrysippus, by Long/Sedley]
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