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Essence, modality, and intrinsicality

Essence, modality, and intrinsicality

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Essence, modality, and intrinsicality

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Essence, modality, and intrinsicality

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Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media

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Synthese (Dordrecht), 2021-08, Vol.198 (8), p.7715-7737

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English

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Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media

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Kit Fine (Philos Perspect 8:1–16, 1994) famously objected against the idea that essence can be successfully analyzed in terms of de re necessity. In response, Iwant to explore a novel, interesting, but controversial modal account of essence in terms of intrinsicality and grounding. In the first section, I will single out two theoretical requirement...

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Essence, modality, and intrinsicality

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2556159723

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2556159723

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0039-7857

E-ISSN

1573-0964

DOI

10.1007/s11229-020-02545-y

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