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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Necessity and Non-Existence' and 'Sameness and Substance'

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

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Natural kinds are well suited to be the sortals which fix substances [Wiggins]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

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What it is is fixed prior to existence or the object's worldly features [Fine,K]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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Essential features of an object have no relation to how things actually are [Fine,K]

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

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Artefacts are individuated by some matter having a certain function [Wiggins]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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Nominal essences don't fix membership, ignore evolution, and aren't contextual [Wiggins]