14 ideas
| 12312 | The real essence of a thing is its powers, or 'dispositional properties' [Copi] |
| 14221 | Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities [Shalkowski] |
| 14222 | Essences are what it is to be that (kind of) thing - in fact, they are the thing's identity [Shalkowski] |
| 10937 | Essential properties are the 'deepest' ones which explain the others [Copi, by Rami] |
| 14226 | We distinguish objects by their attributes, not by their essences [Shalkowski] |
| 12308 | In modern science, nominal essence is intended to be real essence [Copi] |
| 14225 | Critics say that essences are too mysterious to be known [Shalkowski] |
| 12303 | Within the four types of change, essential attributes are those whose loss means destruction [Copi] |
| 14223 | De dicto necessity has linguistic entities as their source, so it is a type of de re necessity [Shalkowski] |
| 9220 | Lewis must specify that all possibilities are in his worlds, making the whole thing circular [Shalkowski, by Sider] |
| 3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 14224 | Equilateral and equiangular aren't the same, as we have to prove their connection [Shalkowski] |
| 12307 | Modern science seeks essences, and is getting closer to them [Copi] |
| 12310 | Real essences are scientifically knowable, but so are non-essential properties [Copi] |