TY - JOUR T1 - Kripkean Essentialist Argument and Its Generalization JF - Organon F Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lee, Jaeho KW - analyticity KW - Kripkean essentialist argument KW - natural kind KW - necessity a posteriori AB - In this paper I examine the argument by H. Beebee and N. Sabbarton-Leary that Brian Ellis’s scientific essentialism is based on the “abuse” of the necessary a posteriori. I will first briefly survey various attempts to resist what I will call the “Kripkean essentialist argument” to locate Beebee’s and Sabbarton-Leary’s position properly. After that I will argue that Beebee’s and Sabbarton-Leary’s argument is not successful; in particular, I will argue that under the most natural interpretation of their position it is not internally coherent, and that their argument is based on a superficial understanding of Kripkean necessity a posteriori. VL - 25 UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2018/2/142-154.pdf M3 - State U2 - Articles U3 - 142154 ER -