| 12361 | Primary substances are ontological in 'Categories', and explanatory in 'Metaphysics' [Aristotle, by Wedin] |
| 11244 | Metaphysics is the science of ultimate explanation, or of pure existence, or of primary existence [Aristotle, by Politis] |
| 16972 | The four explanations are the main aspects of a thing's nature [Aristotle, by Moravcsik] |
| 5084 | A thing's nature is what causes its changes and stability [Aristotle] |
| 11994 | Aristotelian essences are properties mentioned at the starting point of a science [Aristotle, by Kung] |
| 17184 | All natures of things produce some effect [Spinoza] |
| 16787 | Explanatory essence won't do, because it won't distinguish the accidental from the essential [Locke, by Pasnau] |
| 5057 | If you fully understand a subject and its qualities, you see how the second derive from the first [Leibniz] |
| 10937 | Essential properties are the 'deepest' ones which explain the others [Copi, by Rami] |
| 11992 | Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung] |
| 12144 | Essentialism is justified if the essential properties of things explain their other properties [Brody] |
| 11871 | Essences are not explanations, but individuations [Wiggins] |
| 17564 | The essence of a star includes the released binding energy which keeps it from collapse [Inwagen] |
| 12089 | Essences mainly explain the existence of unified substance [Witt] |
| 17390 | Natural kinds don't need essentialism to be explanatory [Dupré] |
| 10935 | An essential property of something must be bound up with what it is to be that thing [Fine,K, by Rami] |
| 16542 | Explanation can't give an account of essence, because it is too multi-faceted [Lowe] |
| 13921 | All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe] |
| 12247 | Essence is not explanatory but constitutive [Oderberg] |
| 15181 | Being a deepest explanatory feature is an actual, not a modal property [Sidelle] |
| 11906 | The Kripke and Putnam view of kinds makes them explanatorily basic, but has modal implications [Mackie,P] |