16143 | It is absurd that a this and a substance should be composed of a quality [Aristotle] |
14047 | Bodies have impermanent properties, and permanent ones which define its conceived nature [Epicurus] |
22762 | Some properties are inseparable from a thing, such as the length, breadth and depth of a body [Sext.Empiricus] |
16633 | A substance has one principal property which is its nature and essence [Descartes] |
16028 | Lockean real essence makes a thing what it is, and produces its observable qualities [Locke, by Jones,J-E] |
12305 | Locke's essences determine the other properties, so the two will change together [Locke, by Copi] |
15985 | It is impossible for two things with the same real essence to differ in properties [Locke] |
12534 | We cannot know what properties are necessary to gold, unless we first know its real essence [Locke] |
13191 | The properties of a thing flow from its essence [Leibniz] |
11878 | Leibniz's view (that all properties are essential) is extreme essentialism, not its denial [Leibniz, by Mackie,P] |
19263 | Imagine an object's properties varying; the ones that won't vary are the essential ones [Husserl, by Vaidya] |
22321 | To know an object we must know the form and content of its internal properties [Wittgenstein, by Potter] |
10923 | Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine] |
5462 | Essential properties are usually quantitatively determinate [Ellis] |
14646 | An object has a property essentially if it couldn't conceivably have lacked it [Plantinga] |
17030 | Important properties of an object need not be essential to it [Kripke] |
14653 | X is essentially P if it is P in every world, or in every X-world, or in the actual world (and not ¬P elsewhere) [Plantinga] |
14654 | Properties are 'trivially essential' if they are instantiated by every object in every possible world [Plantinga] |
14660 | If a property is ever essential, can it only ever be an essential property? [Plantinga] |
14661 | Essences are instantiated, and are what entails a thing's properties and lack of properties [Plantinga] |
14633 | How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson] |
14635 | An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson] |
15297 | We can infer a new property of a thing from its other properties, via its essential nature [Harré/Madden] |
12031 | Essences are taken to be qualitative properties [Adams,RM] |
11879 | Essentialism is best represented as a predicate-modifier: □(a exists → a is F) [Wiggins, by Mackie,P] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
13807 | A property is 'extraneously essential' if it is had only because of the properties of other objects [Forbes,G] |
10936 | Essential properties are part of an object's 'definition' [Fine,K, by Rami] |
15076 | Essential features of an object have no relation to how things actually are [Fine,K] |
12258 | Properties are not part of an essence, but they flow from it [Oderberg] |
13794 | Essential properties by nature occur in clusters or packages [Elder] |
13796 | Essential properties are bound together, and would be lost together [Elder] |