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Ideas for 'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', 'Posterior Analytics' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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

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Definitions recognise essences, so are not themselves essences [Aristotle]

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Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / c. Essentials are necessary

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The predicates of a thing's nature are necessary to it [Aristotle]

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

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Aristotelian essences are properties mentioned at the starting point of a science [Aristotle, by Kung]