Making semantics for essence

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 62 (8):859-876 (2019)
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ABSTRACTIn this paper, I develop a truthmaker semantics for essence and use the semantics to investigate the explanatory role of essence.

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10.1080/0020174x.2019.1570865

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