The context of essence

I address two related questions: first, what is the best theory of how objects have de re modal intuitions? I critically discuss several theories of how objects have their de re modal properties and address the most threatening antiessentialist objection to essentialism: the variability of our modal intuitions. Drawing on linguistic treatments of vagueness and ambiguity. I show how essentialists can accommodate the variability of modal intuitions wile holding that objects have their modal properties independently of contexts.