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Single Idea 15172

[filed under theme 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / c. Essentials are necessary ]

Full Idea

It is clear, of course, that if there are true essential predications, then they express necessary properties.

Gist of Idea

Clearly, essential predications express necessary properties

Source

Alan Sidelle (Necessity, Essence and Individuation [1989], Ch.2)

Book Ref

Sidelle,Alan: 'Necessity, Essence and Individuation' [Cornell 1989], p.26

A Reaction

I would certainly want to ask whether essences have to be analysed as properties, and also (more boldly) whether there might not be contingent essences.

The 9 ideas with the same theme [what is essential is also necessary]:

15107 Aristotle doesn't see essential truths or essential properties as necessary [Aristotle, by Koslicki]
17039 The predicates of a thing's nature are necessary to it [Aristotle]
12560 We can only slightly know necessary co-existence of qualities, if they are primary [Locke]
11997 A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung]
13806 Trivially essential properties are existence, self-identity, and de dicto necessities [Forbes,G]
15172 Clearly, essential predications express necessary properties [Sidelle]
15687 Kinship is essence that comes in degrees, and age groups are essences that change over time [Gelman]
15112 If an object exists, then its essential properties are necessary [Koslicki]
19262 Essential properties are necessary, but necessary properties may not be essential [Vaidya]