| 13774 | Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence [Plato] |
| 11039 | A primary substance reveals a 'this', which is an individual unit [Aristotle] |
| 12311 | Particulars are not definable, because they fluctuate [Aristotle] |
| 17846 | The essence of a single thing is the essence of a particular [Aristotle] |
| 12070 | Individual essences are not universals, since those can't be substances, or cause them [Aristotle, by Witt] |
| 12069 | Essence is the cause of individual substance, and creates its unity [Aristotle, by Witt] |
| 12088 | Aristotelian essence is not universal properties, but individual essence [Aristotle, by Witt] |
| 11998 | Aristotle does not accept individual essences; essential properties are always general [Aristotle, by Kung] |
| 12083 | Aristotle's essence explains the existence of an individual substance, not its properties [Aristotle, by Witt] |
| 11382 | Aristotle takes essence and form as a particular, not (as some claim) as a universal, the species [Aristotle, by Politis] |
| 16097 | To be a subject a thing must be specifiable, with some essential properties [Aristotle, by Gill,ML] |
| 12284 | Everything that is has one single essence [Aristotle] |
| 12810 | We can conceive an individual without assigning it to a kind [Locke, by Jolley] |
| 16786 | You can't distinguish individuals without the species as a standard [Locke] |
| 15992 | Many individuals grouped under one name vary more than some things that have different names [Locke] |
| 15990 | Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke] |
| 12931 | Particular truths are just instances of general truths [Leibniz] |
| 12811 | We can't know individuals, or determine their exact individuality [Leibniz] |
| 19575 | Refinement of senses increasingly distinguishes individuals [Novalis] |
| 20376 | We begin with concepts of kinds, from individuals; but that is not the essence of individuals [Nietzsche] |
| 14435 | The essence of individuality is beyond description, and hence irrelevant to science [Russell] |
| 16520 | We see properties necessary for a kind (in the definition), but not for an individual [Ayer] |
| 15808 | A traditional individual essence includes all of a thing's necessary characteristics [Chisholm] |
| 16979 | It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P] |
| 13571 | Scientific essentialism doesn't really need Kripkean individual essences [Ellis] |
| 11861 | We can forget about individual or particularized essences [Wiggins] |
| 14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
| 11885 | Only individual essences will ground identities across worlds in other properties [Forbes,G, by Mackie,P] |
| 12014 | An individual essence is a set of essential properties which only that object can have [Forbes,G] |
| 12015 | Non-trivial individual essence is properties other than de dicto, or universal, or relational [Forbes,G] |
| 11173 | Being a man is a consequence of his essence, not constitutive of it [Fine,K] |
| 12244 | Nominalism is consistent with individual but not with universal essences [Oderberg] |
| 15121 | An individual essence is a necessary and sufficient profile for a thing [Hawthorne] |
| 11877 | An individual essence is the properties the object could not exist without [Mackie,P] |
| 11882 | No other object can possibly have the same individual essence as some object [Mackie,P] |
| 11886 | There are problems both with individual essences and without them [Mackie,P] |
| 13230 | Particular essence is often captured by generality [Steiner,M] |
| 15113 | Individuals are perceived, but demonstration and definition require universals [Koslicki] |
| 24067 | Hylomorphic compounds need an individual form for transworld identity [Koslicki] |
| 10940 | An 'individual essence' is possessed uniquely by a particular object [Rami] |