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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims' and 'The Flow of Time'

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9 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
14637 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
14636 Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael]
14640 Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
14638 Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality
468 Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
14639 Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
22974 Presentists lack the materials for a realist view of change [Price,H]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series
22973 The present moment, time's direction, and time's dynamic quality seem to be objective facts [Price,H]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow
22975 We must explain either the existence of a time direction, or our psychological sense of it [Price,H]