Sentence examples for a material essence from inspiring English sources

They do not share a material essence, though they each have the same state or status of being a man.

As will be discussed in a subsequent section, many commentators interpret Locke as identifying a material substance's real essence with some subset of its constituent corpuscles' primary qualities, an identification presuming that Locke accepts the corpuscular hypothesis (e.g., Osler 1970, p. 12; Mandelbaum 1964, p.1).

This section considers some main responses to the tension between Locke's seeming acceptance of the corpuscular hypothesis, most notable in his apparent identification of a material substance's real essence with the size, shape, and texture of its insensible parts, and his pessimism about the hypothesis' explanatory power, most notable in his remarks about the four phenomena discussed above.

The individuals in a species or genus thus share a single material essence.

Indifference realism is not a complete departure from material essence realism because William still accepts accidental individuation.

The history of philosophy remembers William for his two theories of universals, material essence realism and indifference realism.

Material essence realism would imply that the persons in the Godhead are accidentally individuated, and this is unacceptable.

When faced with Abelard's arguments against material essence realism, William gave up his belief in universal essences but refused to accept that universals are simply words or concepts.

Indifference realism rejects the core principle of material essence realism by rejecting the notion that there are shared essences and holding that individuals are completely discrete from one another.

As well as explicitly distinguishing categories of meanings from categories of the correlated objects that could possibly be 'meant', Husserl introduced a second innovation to the study of categories by distinguishing highest formal essences (which Husserl calls 'categories') from highest material essences (which he calls 'regions') (1913/1962, §10; cf. Smith 1995, 329 330 and Smith 2007, 142 148).

The real essence of a material thing is its atomic constitution.