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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Mental Entities' 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 / 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]