Essence and Nominalism
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After sketching Kit Fine’s deflationary approach to modality, I argue for a similar approach to essentialism. I argue that nominalizing strategies regarding truth, predication, and similarity permit us to give priority to object language formulations of essentialist claims, thus making essentialism safe for nominalists.
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2016 ◽
Vol 21
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pp. 99-121
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1997 ◽
Vol 22
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pp. 67-111
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