Or is it to capture the warts-and-all essence of an individual human personality in a way that engages the sympathy and deepens the self-understanding of those who encounter it?
This will only be valid if acoustics can capture all the essence of biotope heterogeneity.
In the terminology of Muslim mystics (Ṣūfīs), however, tawhid has a pantheistic sense; all essences are divine, and there is no absolute existence besides that of God.
All contingent properties are accidents and all essences are necessary but, according to the Aristotelian, some necessary properties are accidents.
Plato, a realist, would argue that there exists a transcendental world that contains all ideas, i.e., all essences of things.
For our purposes, it will suffice to think of the CIC as the essence of an individual substance and to think of God as able to survey all essences of all individual substances.
"Truth," if some disinterested observer could ascertain it, would constitute all the essences that genuinely characterize the natural world and all activities within it.
God, in choosing a possible world, chooses all the essences of all the actual individuals, each of which has its program, according to which it acts spontaneously and freely.
