Necessity, essence, and individuation: a defense of conventionalism

Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1989) Copy BIBT_EX

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Anti-Essentialism in Metaphysics

Essence and Essentialism, Misc in Metaphysics

Metaphysical Necessity in Metaphysics

Modal Conventionalism in Metaphysics

Modal Empiricism in Metaphysics

Natural Kinds in Metaphysics

Scientific Conventionalism in General Philosophy of Science

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Convention (Philosophy) Necessity (Philosophy) Realism. Essentialism (Philosophy) Individuation (Philosophy) Empiricism

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1992

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B809.15.S56 1989

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0801421667 9780801421662

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10.2307/2185945

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