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'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'De Anima' and 'Nature Without Essence'
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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The substance is the cause of a thing's being [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism
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Matter is potential, form is actual [Aristotle]
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Scientists explain anger by the matter, dialecticians by the form and the account [Aristotle]
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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 / 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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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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