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Ideas for 'Topics', 'Dispositional Essentialism Grounds Laws of Nature?' and 'Intros to Russell's 'Essays in Analysis''

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

12284	Everything that is has one single essence [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: Everything that is has one single essence [en esti to einai].
	From: Aristotle (Topics [c.331 BCE], 141a36)
	A reaction: Does this include vague objects, and abstract 'objects'? Sceptics might ask what grounds this claim. Does Dr Jeckyll have two essences?

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

12262	An 'idion' belongs uniquely to a thing, but is not part of its essence [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: A property [idion] is something which does not show the essence of a thing but belongs to it alone. ...No one calls anything a property which can possibly belong to something else.
	From: Aristotle (Topics [c.331 BCE], 102a18)
	A reaction: [See Charlotte Witt 106 on this] 'Property' is clearly a bad translation for such an individual item. Witt uses 'proprium', which is a necessary but nonessential property of something. Necessity is NOT the hallmark of essence. See Idea 12266.