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Single Idea 5443
[filed under theme 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Full Idea
The revival of essentialism owes much to the work of Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, who made belief in essences once again respectable, with Harré and Madden arguing that there were real causal powers in nature.
Clarification
For 'essentialism', see under NATURE/LAWS OF NATURE
Gist of Idea
Kripke and others have made essentialism once again respectable
Source
Brian Ellis (The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism [2002], Intro)
Book Ref
Ellis,Brian: 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism' [Acumen 2002], p.7
A Reaction
It seems to me important to separate two stages of this: 1) causation results from essences, and 2) essences can never change. The first seems persuasive to me. For the second, see METAPHYSICS/IDENTITY/COUNTERPARTS.
The
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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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