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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Elements of Law' and 'The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

12679	A real essence is a kind's distinctive properties [Ellis]
	Full Idea: A distinctive set of intrinsic properties for a given kind is called a 'real essence'.
	From: Brian Ellis (The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism [2009], 3)
	A reaction: Note that he thinks essence is a set of properties (rather than what gives rise to the properties), and that it is kinds (and not individuals) which have real essences, and that one role of the properties is to be 'distinctive' of the kind. Cf. Oderberg.