12 ideas
| 12312 | The real essence of a thing is its powers, or 'dispositional properties' [Copi] |
| 12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
| 14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
| 10937 | Essential properties are the 'deepest' ones which explain the others [Copi, by Rami] |
| 14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
| 14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
| 12308 | In modern science, nominal essence is intended to be real essence [Copi] |
| 14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
| 12303 | Within the four types of change, essential attributes are those whose loss means destruction [Copi] |
| 14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |
| 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] |