Although Emerson described "essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf", he also wrote of the "perfect exhilaration" of "crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky".
Mr. Meade is describing the essence of contemporary academicism, and while he puts a positive spin on this, it could be read as a devastating critique.
"It's dedicated to the gladiator — not about physical fighting, but a man from that moment — and I was thinking a little bit about the Memphis movement in the 1980s," said Donatella Versace, referring to the Italian postmodern design and architecture group in describing the essence of her Versace show.
Describing the essence of his new body of work, Crash tells The Creators Project that he's "always had the love of scale".
"I suppose it's what Yeats said — find your work and choose your mate," an older architect muses in the novella "Banishment," describing the essence of a successful life.
Rand called her philosophy "Objectivism", describing its essence as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute".
Rather, taking as its motto Damon Runyon's thought that "there are two types of people in the world, those who love delis and those you shouldn't associate with," "Deli Man" focuses on describing the essence of the deli experience and conveying it to a waiting world.
Then we identified common messages describing the essence of the concepts and split the concepts if required into several sub-concepts.
If a researcher is interested in describing the essence of the phenomenon as an aggregated mental construction with the aim of interpreting the respondent's statements and describing what the phenomenon is, the first-order perspective is used.
After all, Locke had argued that we ought to admit that "essence" is really just a word that we use to describe "nominal essence," a set of sortal concepts based upon sensible qualities; we ought not to act as if "essence" means anything about the real or inner constitution of a thing, for we will remain ignorant of that.
