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Essentialist Plenitude and the Semantics of Proper Names Cover

Essentialist Plenitude and the Semantics of Proper Names

By: Uriah Kriegel  
Open Access
|Sep 2019

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(EP1)For any region R occupied by object O with properties P1, …, Pn, there are in R exactly 2n coincident objects, each with its unique distribution of essentiality and accidentality across P1, …, Pn.
(EP2)For any region R occupied by object O with non-sortalish properties P1, …, Pn, there are in R exactly 2n coincident objects, each with its unique distribution of essentiality and accidentality across P1, …, Pn.
(EP3)For any region R occupied by object O with non-sortalish properties P1, …, Pn and, such that there are m logically permissible but metaphysically impermissible distributions of essentiality and accidentality across P1, …, Pn, (i) there are in R exactly 2nm coincident objects, each with its unique metaphysically permissible distribution of essentiality and accidentality across P1, …, Pn, and (ii) 2n vastly outnumbers m.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/met.19 | Journal eISSN: 2515-8279
Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 9, 2019
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Accepted on: Aug 19, 2019
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Published on: Sep 25, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2019 Uriah Kriegel, published by Ubiquity Press
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