In this section, I discuss four main areas of interpretive dispute concerning real essences: (i) relativized real essences; (ii) individual real essences; (iii) real essences and natural kinds; and (iv) real essences, internal constitutions and substance.
In effect, he adopted a hypothetico-deductive scheme of confirmation, but with this difference: the range of hypotheses was limited by his metaphysical conclusions concerning the essence of mind and matter, their union, and the role of God in creating and conserving the universe.
For example, Fine's (1994) analysis of metaphysical necessity in terms of essence is naturally cast as a grounding thesis: the fact that $[p]$ is metaphysically necessary is grounded in essential facts facts concerning the essences of certain entities (Rosen 2010).
"They concern the essence of the future accord.
The first, Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime, concerned the essence of religion.
"As far as I'm concerned the essence of Mum had gone before we got to the hospital.
He's talking about Breakfast of Champions, his impressively demented adaptation of the equally outlandish novel by Kurt Vonnegut concerning - in essence - a depressed used-car salesman, a dyspeptic sci-fi writer, and the meaning of life.
Since scientia generally concerns real essences, and since natural philosophy for Locke concerns material substances and their powers, scientia in natural philosophy would be knowledge of material substances' real essences and their necessary connections to qualities flowing from them.
Those concerns center, in essence, on the fact that the ACA's "risk pools" tend to have older and less healthy customers than insurers had expected and thus are more expensive to cover.
It is perhaps the Hollywood genre most directly concerned with the essence of cinema itself.
Recorded media is at its very essence concerned with time travel.
