 médicalenon médicale 2. Essence

This account of necessity rests on a principle of cumulativity: if it is true in virtue of the identity of that , then it will also be true in virtue of the identity of and. In

“…any essentialist attribution will give rise to a necessary truth; if certain objects are essentially related then it is necessarily true that the objects are so related

In favour of (ii), I argue that it is possible that wholes lack parts that are nevertheless essential to them and that Kripke’s famous ‘proof ’ of the essentiality of origin

I argue that it is possible that wholes lack parts that are nevertheless essential to them and that Kripke’s famous ‘proof’ of the essentiality of origin and constitution does not

would differ in essence from the table that is in fact made out of this wood, their necessary distinctness follows only under the assumption of the necessity of the modal account: it

I argue that it is possible that wholes lack parts that are essential to them and that Kripke’s famous ‘proof ’ of the essentiality of origin and of constitution does not in

It has often been noted that, on a certain conception of essence at least, answers to the question what it is to be the morning star may not themselves answer the question what it is

◊ remarque : l'inductance est plus grande avec le noyau de fer feuilleté (aimantation induite) ; elle est un peu plus faible avec un noyau de métal non feuilleté (champ magnétique