How things might have been : individuals, kinds, and essential properties / Penelope Mackie.
How things might have been : individuals, kinds, and essential properties / Penelope Mackie.
How things might have been : individuals, kinds, and essential properties / Penelope Mackie.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N111.1/19
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English
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xii, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Preliminaries -- 2. Individual essences and bare identities -- 3. Origin properties and individual essences -- 4. Extrinsically determined identity and 'best-candidate' theories -- 5. Counterpart theory and the puzzles of transworld identity -- 6. The necessity of origin -- 7. Sortal concepts and...
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, 2006.
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England
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2006.
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"How are we to distinguish between the essential and accidental properties of things such as individual people, cats, trees, and tables? Almost everyone agrees that such individuals could have been different, in certain respects, from the way that they actually are. But what are the respects in which they could not have been different: which of the...
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How things might have been : individuals, kinds, and essential properties / Penelope Mackie.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and index.
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N111.1/19
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74VKJ37DGwKZ
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0199272204 (alk. paper)
9780199272204 (alk. paper)
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111.1
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991022171129702626
