| 13083 | The essence is the necessary properties, and the concept includes what is contingent [Leibniz] |
| 11156 | The essence is that without which a thing can neither be, nor be conceived to be [Mill] |
| 16997 | An essential property is true of an object in any case where it would have existed [Kripke] |
| 17045 | De re modality is an object having essential properties [Kripke] |
| 13952 | Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R] |
| 12761 | An essential property is one had in all the possible worlds where a thing exists [Stalnaker] |
| 12142 | Essentially, a has P, always had P, must have had P, and has never had a future without P [Brody] |
| 12143 | An object having a property essentially is equivalent to its having it necessarily [Brody] |
| 16467 | 'Socrates is essentially human' seems to say nothing could be Socrates if it was not human [Stalnaker] |
| 14076 | Essentialism is the existence of a definite answer as to whether an entity fulfils a condition [Gibbard] |
| 13793 | An essential property is one possessed by all counterparts [Lewis, by Elder] |
| 13969 | Kripkean essential properties and relations are necessary, in all genuinely possible worlds [Soames] |
| 18888 | Essentialism says some properties must be possessed, if a thing is to exist [Salmon,N] |
| 13808 | A relation is essential to two items if it holds in every world where they exist [Forbes,G] |
| 12012 | Essential properties are those without which an object could not exist [Forbes,G] |
| 11158 | Essentialist claims can be formulated more clearly with quantified modal logic [Fine,K] |
| 11160 | Simple modal essentialism refers to necessary properties of an object [Fine,K] |
| 13072 | Modern essences are sets of essential predicate-functions [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
| 17080 | Modern essentialists express essence as functions from worlds to extensions for predicates [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
| 14380 | The distinction between necessary and essential properties can be ignored [Rocca] |
| 17952 | Modal accounts make essence less mysterious, by basing them on the clearer necessity [Vetter] |