11188 | The Aristotelian view is that the essential properties are those that sort an object [Aristotle, by Marcus (Barcan)] |
11196 | Essence is something in common between the natures which sort things into categories [Aquinas] |
13074 | Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
17233 | Particulars contain universal things [Hobbes] |
12530 | The less rational view of essences is that they are moulds for kinds of natural thing [Locke] |
12532 | Even real essence depends on a sort, since it is sorts which have the properties [Locke] |
12539 | If every sort has its real essence, one horse, being many sorts, will have many essences [Locke] |
21218 | The sense of anything contingent has a purely apprehensible essence or Eidos [Husserl] |
15106 | Essence is expressed by grammar [Wittgenstein] |
11908 | Putnam bases essences on 'same kind', but same kinds may not share properties [Mackie,P on Putnam] |
12679 | A real essence is a kind's distinctive properties [Ellis] |
17055 | Atomic number 79 is part of the nature of the gold we know [Kripke] |
17523 | Sortals basically apply to individuals [Ayers] |
15143 | Kind essences are the categorical bases of a thing's causal powers [Bhaskar, by Chakravartty] |
11895 | A sortal essence is a property which once possessed always possessed [Brody, by Mackie,P] |
12141 | Maybe essential properties are those which determine a natural kind? [Brody] |
16509 | Natural kinds are well suited to be the sortals which fix substances [Wiggins] |
12013 | Essential properties depend on a category, and perhaps also on particular facts [Forbes,G] |
15678 | Essentialism says categories have a true hidden nature which gives an object its identity [Gelman] |
15683 | Sortals are needed for determining essence - the thing must be categorised first [Gelman] |
15697 | Kind (unlike individual) essentialism assumes preexisting natural categories [Gelman] |
12871 | Objects have their essential properties because of the kind of objects they are [Simons] |
13129 | Essential kinds may be too specific to provide ontological categories [Westerhoff] |
11909 | Unlike Hesperus=Phosophorus, water=H2O needs further premisses before it is necessary [Mackie,P] |
11899 | Why are any sortals essential, and why are only some of them essential? [Mackie,P] |
15145 | A kind essence is the necessary and sufficient properties for membership of a class [Chakravartty] |
10939 | 'Sortal essentialism' says being a particular kind is what is essential [Rami] |