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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reflections on my Critics' and 'The Metaphysics of Modality'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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Only individual essences will ground identities across worlds in other properties [Forbes,G, by Mackie,P]

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An individual essence is a set of essential properties which only that object can have [Forbes,G]

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Non-trivial individual essence is properties other than de dicto, or universal, or relational [Forbes,G]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

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Essential properties depend on a category, and perhaps also on particular facts [Forbes,G]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

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Essential properties are those without which an object could not exist [Forbes,G]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 11. Essence of Artefacts

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Same parts does not ensure same artefact, if those parts could constitute a different artefact [Forbes,G]

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Artefacts have fuzzy essences [Forbes,G]