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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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.