Sentence examples for any essences from inspiring English sources

Their properties are contingent because they lack any essences (or any essential properties).

Moreover, Gassendi maintains, regardless of whether there are any essences and whether they might be mutable, there are none to which we have any epistemic access.

This seems to deny that there is any "essence," or objective truth, to art criticism, or any truly proper way of practicing it.

Sutton's approach is so detached, so much a visitation from outer space, that the characters are nothing but a blur, undercutting any essence of dread.

Suicide may not have any essence, but if it has one, it is a private act of a person with serious mental disturbances and not a language at all.

Together the two Turnbulls are worth $186m, most of it earned by the pair of them, but Lucy has said she doesn't feel wealth is part of any "essence" of her.

Lacking any essence, it can only fail to Be.

Finally, it incorporates the insights of poststructuralism about the difficulties in ascribing any essence or non-historical aspect to identity.

By lacking any essence, queer does not marginalize those whose sexuality is outside of any gay or lesbian norm, such as sado-masochists.

A related criticism is that queer theory, since it refuses any essence or reference to standard ideas of normality, cannot make crucial distinctions.

This orientation reflects an expanded 'sensibility' to the environment, where flexible borders of the organism and changing parameters of individuality dispense with any characterizing essences – genetic, molecular, or immune.