Necessary properties vs. essential properties?

[Philo]

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To me it still stands as nothing but a semantic riddle. They aren't the same but what they name are the same properties. So both yes and no are wrong answers, and you can kill any answer .



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If they pick out the same set of properties then they are extensionally equivalent. That doesn't make the issue a semantic one.

[PLOlover]

didn't socrates always start out by defining terms?

the problem of course is that by social conditioning you only have like 10-20 seconds to respond to his quesiton, and you cannot really put your own question in there. I mean, you might get tased.