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Full Idea
The key for the essentialist is classificatory predication. It is only a subsequent extension of this prime idea that leads us to cobble together enough such essential predications to make an individuative essential property.
Gist of Idea
Individual essences are just cobbled together classificatory predicates
Source
Joseph Almog (Nature Without Essence [2010], 11)
Book Ref
-: 'Journal of Philosophy' [-], p.376
A Reaction
So the essence is just a cross-reference of all the ways we can think of to classify it? I don't think so. Which are the essential classifications?