No Route to Material Origin Essentialism?

Erkenntnis 72 (1):93 - 110 (2010)
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In the last 30 years repeated attempts have been made to develop a proof-sketch Kripke gave for essentialism about material origins into a cogent argument. I argue that there are general reasons that all such attempts have failed, and so we should likewise expect future attempts to fail

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