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Full Idea
Let us be realistic, and forget about individual or particularized essences.
Gist of Idea
We can forget about individual or particularized essences
Source
David Wiggins (Sameness and Substance Renewed [2001], 4.2)
Book Ref
Wiggins,David: 'Sameness and Substance Renewed' [CUP 2001], p.109
A Reaction
This is the rather weird position you reach if you follow Wiggins's 'modest' essentialism, deriving from a thing merely falling under a sortal, or into a category. What is a natural kind, if its members don't each have a shared essence?