Abstract Essentialists understand modal properties in terms of the essences things. Given this view, it is natural to think that our knowledge modality ultimately derives from Is view plausible? Do we genuinely have things, a form substantial enough ground knowledge? The more pack into notion essence allow underpin properties, harder claim genuine knowledge. I will argue realists about certain ...

Patrick Thompson is Director of Architecture at Rogue Wave Software, where he has been involved with SOAP bridging products and in exploring the uses of SOAP and XML protocols for the past year and a half. He is on the W3C XML Protocols working group and is involved in the OMG ́s CORBA/SOAP mapping work. He regularly speaks at industry conferences and is coauthor of the popular book The Elements...

Copy Abstract: Commentators generally found our exposition of the concept of heritability helpful for psychologists, suggesting that we largely accomplished our primary goal. Many provided supplemental and helpful perspectives on concepts we addressed. A few of the comments indicated that we may not have been completely successful in making clear our secondary goal, which was to outline how her...