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Ideas for 'works', 'Form, Matter and Substance' and 'Popular Scientific Lectures'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

11237	Only universals have essence [Plato, by Politis]
	Full Idea: Plato argues that only universals have essence.
	From: report of Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 1.4

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

24067	Hylomorphic compounds need an individual form for transworld identity [Koslicki]
	Full Idea: It is difficult to see how forms could serve as cross-world identity principles for hylomorphic compounds, unless these forms are particular or individual entities.
	From: Kathrin Koslicki (Form, Matter and Substance [2018], 3.4.3)
	A reaction: This is a key part of her objection to treating the form as universal or generic. I agree with her view.

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

11238	Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is [Plato, by Politis]
	Full Idea: Plato and Aristotle have a shared general conception of essence: the essence of a thing is what that thing is simply in virtue of itself and in virtue of being the very thing it is. It answers the question 'What is this very thing?'
	From: report of Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 1.4