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Ideas for 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence', 'On Fate ('De fato')' and 'Categories'

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

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A primary substance reveals a 'this', which is an individual unit [Aristotle]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

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Primary substances are ontological in 'Categories', and explanatory in 'Metaphysics' [Aristotle, by Wedin]

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All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe]