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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Locke on Essences and Kinds' and 'Librium de interpretatione editio secunda'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity

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We can call the quality of Plato 'Platonity', and say it is a quality which only he possesses [Boethius]

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

15642

If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle]

15645

Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle]

15643

Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

15641

Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

542	Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]