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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Decline of Explicit Essentialism
A Theoretical Sampling
Wittgenstein's Critique
Carnapian "Explication"
Essences and "Rigid Designators"
Variations
Summary Reflections
2. The Persistence of Essentialistic Theorizing
Cajetan on Analogy
Wittgenstein on Language and Propositions
Williams on Knowledge
Dretske on Knowledge
Overview
3. Calculus and Mosaic
Meaning and Use
Second Series
Samples from the Other Side
Signs of Something Larger
4. Network-Reasoning
A Problematic Paradigm
Language as an Interlocking Calculus
An Alternate Line of Critique
One-Directional Reasoning
Back to the Beginning
5. Other Worlds
Real Concepts, Unreal Worlds
A Systematic Sampling
Gettier's Counter-Examples
Robot Cats, Sleek Toads, Etc.
Cartesian Selves, Bracketed Worlds
Kripke and Possible Worlds
Retrospect
6. Sources of Essentialism
A First Source: Language
A Second Source: Disregard for Language
A Third Source: The Will
A Fourth Source: Contagion
A Fifth Source: Argument
Alternatives
7. Diagnoses and Prognosis
General Theories: Scheler
Particular Theories: Wittgenstein
Calculus-Reasoning: Pitcher
Network-Reasoning: Graham
Other-Worlds Reasoning: Kripke
Overview
Notes
Works Cited
Index
