The phrase "constitute the essence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize that something is an essential part of something else. For example, "The core principles of democracy constitute the essence of the United States political system."
Such currents taken together constitute the essence of a magnetic storm.
In evolutionary terms, dark triad personality characteristics constitute the essence of the freeriding.
Does, then, configuration and colour constitute the essence of the various animals and of their several parts?
A variety of chili peppers, ranging from mild to incendiary, and fragrant, piquant Sichuan peppercorns (really dried berries) constitute the essence of Sichuan style.
As argued by John Allen and myself in an April 2018 paper, such systems have three qualities that constitute the essence of artificial intelligence: intentionality, intelligence, and adaptability.
Chemical composition and internal structure together constitute the essence of a mineral and determine its physical properties; thus, classification should rely on both.
Rather, Hegel's ontological monism and thus his idealism is meant to be a claim as to the constitution of what is real in reality, a claim about what constitutes the essence (the "truth") of real objects.
This initial inquiry into the ontological constitution of existing things and the correct understanding of "substance" as that which constitutes the essence of a thing (and is thus more worthy of the term "being" than is accident) is crucial to Ibn Daud.
But what exactly constitutes the essence of a problem?
It is the metaphorical relationship between these memories of the past and the known images of the world of the present that constitutes the essence of storytelling.
Last week we considered some of the implications of Spinoza's concept of conatus – the striving to persevere in existence, and to enhance its own power, that constitutes the essence of every individual being.
