Natural Kinds: (Thick) Essentialism or Promiscuous Realism? Theoretical identity statements of the form ‘water is H2 O’ are allegedly necessary truths knowable a posteriori, and assert that nothing could be water and

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Date: 2007-06-19 09:48:42 Analytic philosophers Essentialism Philosophical logic Philosophy of life Modal logic Naming and Necessity Hilary Putnam A priori and a posteriori David Chalmers Philosophy Logic Analytic philosophy		Natural Kinds: (Thick) Essentialism or Promiscuous Realism? Theoretical identity statements of the form ‘water is H2 O’ are allegedly necessary truths knowable a posteriori, and assert that nothing could be water and Document is deleted from original location. Use the Download Button below to download from the Web Archive. Download Document from Web Archive File Size: 158,86 KB

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