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Ideas for 'Essence and Potentiality', 'Realistic Rationalism' and 'Elements of Intuitionism'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition

17953	Real definition fits abstracta, but not individual concrete objects like Socrates [Vetter]
	Full Idea: I can understand the notion of real definition as applying to (some) abstact entities, but I have no idea how to apply it to a concrete object such as Socrates or myself.
	From: Barbara Vetter (Essence and Potentiality [2010], §1)
	A reaction: She is objecting to Kit Fine's account of essence, which is meant to be clearer than the normal account of essences based on necessities. Aristotle implies that definitions get fuzzy when you reach the level of the individual.

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

17952	Modal accounts make essence less mysterious, by basing them on the clearer necessity [Vetter]
	Full Idea: The modal account was meant, I take it, to make the notion of essence less mysterious by basing it on the supposedly better understood notion of necessity.
	From: Barbara Vetter (Essence and Potentiality [2010], §1)