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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]

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]

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]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

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With the necessity of self-identity plus Leibniz's Law, identity has to be an 'internal' relation [Kripke]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

4942	The indiscernibility of identicals is as self-evident as the law of contradiction [Kripke]