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Single Idea 11039
[filed under theme 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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Full Idea
Every substance seems to signify a certain 'this'. As regards the primary substances, it is indisputably true that each of them signifies a certain 'this'; for the thing revealed is individual and numerically one.
Gist of Idea
A primary substance reveals a 'this', which is an individual unit
Source
Aristotle (Categories [c.331 BCE], 03b10)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Categories and De Interpretatione', ed/tr. Ackrill,J.R. [OUP 1963], p.9
A Reaction
The notion of 'primary' substance is confined to this earlier metaphysics of Aristotle.
The
40 ideas
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[each individual has its own distinct essence]:
13774
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Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence
[Plato]
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11039
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A primary substance reveals a 'this', which is an individual unit
[Aristotle]
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12311
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Particulars are not definable, because they fluctuate
[Aristotle]
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17846
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The essence of a single thing is the essence of a particular
[Aristotle]
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12070
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Individual essences are not universals, since those can't be substances, or cause them
[Aristotle, by Witt]
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12069
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Essence is the cause of individual substance, and creates its unity
[Aristotle, by Witt]
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12088
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Aristotelian essence is not universal properties, but individual essence
[Aristotle, by Witt]
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11998
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Aristotle does not accept individual essences; essential properties are always general
[Aristotle, by Kung]
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12083
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Aristotle's essence explains the existence of an individual substance, not its properties
[Aristotle, by Witt]
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11382
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Aristotle takes essence and form as a particular, not (as some claim) as a universal, the species
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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16097
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To be a subject a thing must be specifiable, with some essential properties
[Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
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12284
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Everything that is has one single essence
[Aristotle]
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12810
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We can conceive an individual without assigning it to a kind
[Locke, by Jolley]
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16786
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You can't distinguish individuals without the species as a standard
[Locke]
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15992
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Many individuals grouped under one name vary more than some things that have different names
[Locke]
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15990
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Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution
[Locke]
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12931
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Particular truths are just instances of general truths
[Leibniz]
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12811
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We can't know individuals, or determine their exact individuality
[Leibniz]
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19575
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Refinement of senses increasingly distinguishes individuals
[Novalis]
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20376
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We begin with concepts of kinds, from individuals; but that is not the essence of individuals
[Nietzsche]
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14435
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The essence of individuality is beyond description, and hence irrelevant to science
[Russell]
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16520
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We see properties necessary for a kind (in the definition), but not for an individual
[Ayer]
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15808
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A traditional individual essence includes all of a thing's necessary characteristics
[Chisholm]
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16979
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It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual
[Strawson,P]
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13571
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Scientific essentialism doesn't really need Kripkean individual essences
[Ellis]
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11861
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We can forget about individual or particularized essences
[Wiggins]
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14637
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Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them
[McMichael]
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11885
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Only individual essences will ground identities across worlds in other properties
[Forbes,G, by Mackie,P]
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12014
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An individual essence is a set of essential properties which only that object can have
[Forbes,G]
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12015
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Non-trivial individual essence is properties other than de dicto, or universal, or relational
[Forbes,G]
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11173
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Being a man is a consequence of his essence, not constitutive of it
[Fine,K]
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12244
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Nominalism is consistent with individual but not with universal essences
[Oderberg]
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15121
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An individual essence is a necessary and sufficient profile for a thing
[Hawthorne]
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11877
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An individual essence is the properties the object could not exist without
[Mackie,P]
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11882
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No other object can possibly have the same individual essence as some object
[Mackie,P]
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11886
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There are problems both with individual essences and without them
[Mackie,P]
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13230
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Particular essence is often captured by generality
[Steiner,M]
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15113
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Individuals are perceived, but demonstration and definition require universals
[Koslicki]
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24067
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Hylomorphic compounds need an individual form for transworld identity
[Koslicki]
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10940
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An 'individual essence' is possessed uniquely by a particular object
[Rami]
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