On the basis of the reversal of the essence-appearance hierarchy and on the basis of the reduction to immanence, we can see that something like a decision (a perhaps impossible decision) must have been made at the beginning of the metaphysical tradition, a decision that instituted the hierarchy of essence-appearance and separated essence from appearance.
But then, this argumentation would imply that essence and appearance are not related to one another as separate oppositional poles.
But distinction between essence and appearance must itself instantiate the relation of determinate negation, and the metaphysical tendency to think of reality as made up of some underlying substrates in contrast to the superficial appearances will itself come to grief with the discovery that the notion of an essence is only meaningful in virtue of the appearance that it is meant to explain away.
Crucially, the contrasting pair essence and appearance of Essence-logic allow the thought of some underlying reality that manifests itself through a different overlying appearance, in the way that the forces posited by the operations of the Understanding (explored in the Phenomenology's Chapter 3) are grasped through the appearances they explain.
Opt for functionality over appearance.
It was, in essence, over.
These explored the polarities of what Alvarez Bravo described as "essence over accident".
In essence, over 80% currently lived with their family in their own homes and 86% were parents.
In an essay entitled "The Concept of Essence" Marcuse writes: "Materialist theory thus transcends the given state of fact and moves toward a different potentiality, proceeding from immediate appearance to the essence that appears in it.
The crowd is won over "by appearances", and as "the world is all crowd", appearances matter.
So, we would say that what we used to call essence is found in appearance, essence is mixed into appearance.
