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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reply to First Objections' and 'Locke on Essences and Kinds'

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8 ideas

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

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

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Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle]

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

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

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I can't be unaware of anything which is in me [Descartes]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence

3635	Essence must be known before we discuss existence [Descartes]

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

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

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof

3634	We can't prove a first cause from our inability to grasp infinity [Descartes]