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Single Idea 16143
[filed under theme 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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Full Idea
Is it not impossible, even outrageous, that a this and a substance (even if it can be composed of constituents) should be composed not of substances and the this-thing-here but of a quality?
Gist of Idea
It is absurd that a this and a substance should be composed of a quality
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1038b25)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.217
A Reaction
This is to show Aristotle's deep hostility to anyone who thinks an essence is just a set of special properties (and the 'anyone' means just about anyone these days).
The
33 ideas
with the same theme
[essence consists of a set of properties]:
16143
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It is absurd that a this and a substance should be composed of a quality
[Aristotle]
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14047
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Bodies have impermanent properties, and permanent ones which define its conceived nature
[Epicurus]
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22762
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Some properties are inseparable from a thing, such as the length, breadth and depth of a body
[Sext.Empiricus]
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16633
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A substance has one principal property which is its nature and essence
[Descartes]
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16028
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Lockean real essence makes a thing what it is, and produces its observable qualities
[Locke, by Jones,J-E]
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12305
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Locke's essences determine the other properties, so the two will change together
[Locke, by Copi]
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15985
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It is impossible for two things with the same real essence to differ in properties
[Locke]
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12534
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We cannot know what properties are necessary to gold, unless we first know its real essence
[Locke]
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13191
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The properties of a thing flow from its essence
[Leibniz]
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11878
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Leibniz's view (that all properties are essential) is extreme essentialism, not its denial
[Leibniz, by Mackie,P]
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19263
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Imagine an object's properties varying; the ones that won't vary are the essential ones
[Husserl, by Vaidya]
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22321
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To know an object we must know the form and content of its internal properties
[Wittgenstein, by Potter]
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10923
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Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties
[Quine]
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5462
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Essential properties are usually quantitatively determinate
[Ellis]
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14646
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An object has a property essentially if it couldn't conceivably have lacked it
[Plantinga]
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17030
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Important properties of an object need not be essential to it
[Kripke]
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14653
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X is essentially P if it is P in every world, or in every X-world, or in the actual world (and not ¬P elsewhere)
[Plantinga]
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14654
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Properties are 'trivially essential' if they are instantiated by every object in every possible world
[Plantinga]
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14660
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If a property is ever essential, can it only ever be an essential property?
[Plantinga]
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14661
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Essences are instantiated, and are what entails a thing's properties and lack of properties
[Plantinga]
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14633
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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic?
[Jackson]
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14635
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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears
[Jackson]
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15297
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We can infer a new property of a thing from its other properties, via its essential nature
[Harré/Madden]
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12031
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Essences are taken to be qualitative properties
[Adams,RM]
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11879
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Essentialism is best represented as a predicate-modifier: □(a exists → a is F)
[Wiggins, by Mackie,P]
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14636
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Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature
[McMichael]
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14640
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Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary?
[McMichael]
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13807
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A property is 'extraneously essential' if it is had only because of the properties of other objects
[Forbes,G]
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10936
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Essential properties are part of an object's 'definition'
[Fine,K, by Rami]
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15076
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Essential features of an object have no relation to how things actually are
[Fine,K]
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12258
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Properties are not part of an essence, but they flow from it
[Oderberg]
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13794
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Essential properties by nature occur in clusters or packages
[Elder]
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13796
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Essential properties are bound together, and would be lost together
[Elder]
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