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12031 | Essences are taken to be qualitative properties [Adams,RM] |
Full Idea: Essences have normally been understood to be constituted by qualitative properties. | |
From: Robert Merrihew Adams (Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity [1979], 1) | |
A reaction: I add this simple point, because it might be challenged by the view that an essence is a substance, rather than the properties of anything. I prefer that, and would add that substances are individuated by distinctive causal powers. |