| 16646 | To understand a triangle summing to two right angles, we need to know the essence of a line [Aristotle] |
| 15119 | Aristotelian explanation by essence may need to draw on knowledge of other essences [Aristotle, by Koslicki] |
| 11384 | We know something when we fully know what it is, not just its quality, quantity or location [Aristotle] |
| 16105 | We know a thing when we grasp its essence [Aristotle] |
| 16135 | Real enquiries seek causes, and causes are essences [Aristotle] |
| 11296 | The explanation is what gives matter its state, which is the form, which is the substance [Aristotle] |
| 11999 | Essential properties explain in conjunction with properties shared by the same kind [Aristotle, by Kung] |
| 22524 | The nature of each thing is its mature state [Aristotle] |
| 12000 | Aristotle regularly says that essential properties explain other significant properties [Aristotle, by Kung] |
| 11198 | Definition of essence makes things understandable [Aquinas] |
| 16784 | Forms make things distinct and explain the properties, by pure form, or arrangement of parts [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
| 13073 | To understand the properties we must know the essence, as with a circle [Spinoza] |
| 17026 | From the phenomena, I can't deduce the reason for the properties of gravity [Newton] |
| 16037 | Locke seems to use real essence for scientific explanation, and substratum for the being of a thing [Locke, by Jones,J-E] |
| 16032 | To explain qualities, Locke invokes primary and secondary qualities, not real essences [Locke, by Jones,J-E] |
| 12519 | Gold is supposed to have a real essence, from whence its detectable properties flow [Locke] |
| 12977 | We will only connect our various definitions of gold when we understand it more deeply [Leibniz] |
| 12729 | The cause of a change is not the real influence, but whatever gives a reason for the change [Leibniz] |
| 13089 | To fully conceive the subject is to explain the resulting predicates and events [Leibniz] |
| 13092 | The essence of substance is the law of its changes, as in the series of numbers [Leibniz] |
| 13569 | To give essentialist explanations there have to be natural kinds [Ellis] |
| 15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
| 15219 | Essence explains passive capacities as well as active powers [Harré/Madden] |
| 11995 | Some peripheral properties are explained by essential ones, but don't themselves explain properties [Kung] |
| 11996 | Some non-essential properties may explain more than essential-but-peripheral ones do [Kung] |
| 11848 | Asking 'what is it?' nicely points us to the persistence of a continuing entity [Wiggins] |
| 12064 | The category of substance is more important for epistemology than for ontology [Wiggins] |
| 12049 | Naming the secondary substance provides a mass of general information [Wiggins] |
| 14322 | If fragile just means 'breaks when dropped', it won't explain a breakage [Mumford] |
| 17481 | Nuclear charge (plus laws) explains electron structure and spectrum, but not vice versa [Hendry] |
| 11905 | Locke's kind essences are explanatory, without being necessary to the kind [Mackie,P] |
| 15114 | Discovering the Aristotelian essence of thunder will tell us why thunder occurs [Koslicki] |
| 15710 | Bohr explained the periodic table and chemical properties of elements, using the quantum atom [Kumar] |
| 16783 | Essences must explain, so we can infer them causally from the accidents [Pasnau] |
| 16975 | Essences are used to explain natural kinds, modality, and causal powers [Tahko] |