12262 | An 'idion' belongs uniquely to a thing, but is not part of its essence [Aristotle] |
17246 | Some accidental features are permanent, unless the object perishes [Hobbes] |
17191 | Nothing is essential if it is in every part, and is common to everything [Spinoza] |
13082 | The complete concept of an individual includes contingent properties, as well as necessary ones [Leibniz] |
13189 | A necessary feature (such as air for humans) is not therefore part of the essence [Leibniz] |
11180 | Essentialist sentences are not theorems of modal logic, and can even be false [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11186 | 'Essentially' won't replace 'necessarily' for vacuous properties like snub-nosed or self-identical [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11185 | 'Is essentially' has a different meaning from 'is necessarily', as they often cannot be substituted [Marcus (Barcan)] |
11993 | Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung] |
12763 | Necessarily self-identical, or being what it is, or its world-indexed properties, aren't essential [Stalnaker] |
11918 | The essence of a thing need not include everything that is necessarily true of it [Molnar] |
13376 | We should not regard essentialism as just nontrivial de re necessity [Jubien] |
16537 | Essence as necessary properties produces a profusion of essential properties [Fine,K, by Lowe] |
11163 | The nature of singleton Socrates has him as a member, but not vice versa [Fine,K] |
11164 | It is not part of the essence of Socrates that a huge array of necessary truths should hold [Fine,K] |
11167 | Metaphysical necessity is a special case of essence, not vice versa [Fine,K] |
9206 | We must distinguish between the identity or essence of an object, and its necessary features [Fine,K] |
12870 | We must distinguish the de dicto 'must' of propositions from the de re 'must' of essence [Simons] |
11248 | Necessary truths can be two-way relational, where essential truths are one-way or intrinsic [Politis] |
13166 | Essences are no use in mathematics, if all mathematical truths are necessary [Mancosu] |
10934 | Unlosable properties are not the same as essential properties [Rami] |
16749 | Aristotelians deny that all necessary properties are essential [Pasnau] |