Origin essentialism: the arguments reconsidered

Unless one embraces certain tendentious essentialist theses, then, as sufficiency clauses are restricted, the range of cases for which the essentiality of origins is established is correspondingly constrained. The type of strategy Teresa Robertson tenders on behalf of the defender for moving from th...

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Published inMind Vol. 109; no. 434; pp. 285 - 298
Main Authors Hawthorne, J, Gendler, TS
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Oxford University Press 01.04.2000
Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
Subjects
Compossibility
Counterexamples
Discussions
Essentialism
Genetic code
Intuition
Material properties
Metaphysics
Modal realism
Philosophy
Robertson, Teresa
Theory
Zygotes
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Summary:Unless one embraces certain tendentious essentialist theses, then, as sufficiency clauses are restricted, the range of cases for which the essentiality of origins is established is correspondingly constrained. The type of strategy Teresa Robertson tenders on behalf of the defender for moving from these restricted conclusions to a general thesis will not work, nor will anything similar.
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ISSN:0026-4423
1460-2113
DOI:10.1093/mind/109.434.285