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Single Idea 11177
[filed under theme 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Full Idea
Can the essence of an object (ineliminably) involve that object itself (perhaps through self-identity, giving a direct circularity), or have an indirect circularity involving two or more objects (such as admiration between Watson and Holmes).
Gist of Idea
Can the essence of an object circularly involve itself, or involve another object?
Source
Kit Fine (Senses of Essence [1995], §7)
Book Ref
'Modality, Morality and Belief', ed/tr. Sinnott-Armstrong/Raffman/Asher [CUP 1995], p.65
A Reaction
[compressed] This looks like one of the basic questions which any theory of essentialism must address.
The
27 ideas
with the same theme
[idea that objects have essences, as well as other features]:
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11199
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Aristotelian essence underlies behaviour, or underlies definition, or is the source of existence
[Aristotle, by Aquinas]
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12304
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Aristotelian essence is retained with identity through change, and bases our scientific knowledge
[Aristotle, by Copi]
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11294
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Aristotle says changing, material things (and not just universals) have an essence
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11298
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Are essences actually universals?
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11202
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It is by having essence that things exist
[Aquinas]
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4828
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The essence of a thing is what is required for it to exist or be conceived
[Spinoza]
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12498
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Particular substances are coexisting ideas that seem to flow from a hidden essence
[Locke]
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12520
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The best I can make of real essence is figure, size and connection of solid parts
[Locke]
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13771
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Real essence is the constitution of the unknown parts of a body which produce its qualities
[Locke]
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12743
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A true being must (unlike a chain) have united parts, with a substantial form as its subject
[Leibniz]
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13088
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Subjects include predicates, so full understanding of subjects reveals all the predicates
[Leibniz]
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13077
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Basic predicates give the complete concept, which then predicts all of the actions
[Leibniz]
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12908
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Essences exist in the divine understanding
[Leibniz]
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13432
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The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii
[Leibniz]
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24089
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Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things
[Nietzsche]
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15576
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Heidegger seeks a non-traditional concept of essence as 'essential unfolding'
[Heidegger, by Polt]
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5443
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Kripke and others have made essentialism once again respectable
[Ellis]
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14666
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Socrates is a contingent being, but his essence is not; without Socrates, his essence is unexemplified
[Plantinga]
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11976
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Aristotelian essentialism says essences are not relative to specification
[Lewis]
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14221
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Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities
[Shalkowski]
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11177
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Can the essence of an object circularly involve itself, or involve another object?
[Fine,K]
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12241
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Essences are real, about being, knowable, definable and classifiable
[Oderberg, by PG]
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15685
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Essentialism is either natural to us, or an accident of our culture, or a necessary result of language
[Gelman]
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15684
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Children's concepts include nonobvious features, like internal parts, functions and causes
[Gelman]
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15700
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In India, upper-castes essentialize caste more than lower-castes do
[Gelman]
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11889
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Essentialism must avoid both reduplication of essences, and multiple occupancy by essences
[Mackie,P]
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15110
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An essence and what merely follow from it are distinct
[Koslicki]
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