Are Wooden Tables Necessarily Wooden? Intensional Essentialism Versus Metaphysical Modality

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Authors	MATERNA Pavel JESPERSEN Bjorn
Year of publication	2002
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Acta Analytica
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Informatics
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Field	Philosophy and religion
Keywords	essentialism * metaphysical modality
Description	Supposing - as we do in transparent intensional logic - that individuals are 'nude' possessing no non-trivial property necessarily we argue that no wooden table is necessarily wooden (and not necessarily a table either). The argumentation is connected with a criticism of Kripke's theory.
Related projects:	The Idea of constructions in 'Transparent Intentional Logic"