Modal Architecture/Epistemic Priority: given that there is a distinction between necessity, possibility, and essence, is knowledge of one more fundamental than knowledge of the others?
Thus, for example, we seek the essence of knowledge by investigating what is involved in the concept of knowledge — where knowledge turns out to be true justified belief (give or take a bit).
Ásta Sveinsdóttir (2013) defends a conferralist theory of our knowledge of essence, on which essence of an object is not mind-independent, but rather conferred by our practices and consideration of hypothetical scenarios.
It is creative work, sometimes at a higher level than what produced the original idea, and it is the essence of Knowledge Building.
Epistemology as a philosophical concept to study the nature and essence of knowledge could be applied as a spur to encourage further discussions among the scholars on SE.
Epistemic Entanglement: knowledge of essence neither necessarily precedes knowledge of essence nor is necessarily preceded by knowledge of existence.
Given that there are real and nominal essences for modes and that a general knowledge consists in knowledge of essences, then Locke needs some way to distinguish the essences of modes from those of substances.
The epistemic position can be properly captured as: Epistemic Essentialism: knowledge of essence must precede knowledge of existence.
For example, Crawford Elder (2005) defends an empiricist account of our knowledge of essence through the test of flanking uniformities.
Husserl proposes phenomenology as the knowledge of "essence", which explains what things are and not just throws "data" on them.
