In essence, property should be a safe source of diversification.
Spinoza's various claims about essences, properties, and accidents suggest that at least some of the cases of destruction that we might consider self-destruction are, for Spinoza, destruction by external causes (Garrett, 2002, pursues this strategy).
Philosophers have thought not only about whether an object has this or that particular property essentially but also about whether an object has a special kind of essential property, an individual essence, a property that in addition to being essential to the object is also unique to it in the sense that it is not possible that something distinct from that object possesses that property.
The statistical learning theory, in essence, characterizes properties of learning machines to make them able of generalization to unseen data.
In essence, toxicological properties of a chemical entity are discerned by connecting a query gene signature generated as a result of exposure of a biological system (whole animal, tissue or cell line) to the chemical, to other, already known, chemical entities via a database of chemical compound reference gene expression signatures (pioneered in [ 2]).
Notice that although the definition works for (mathbb K -algebras of arbitrary dimensions, the property of algebraic amenability is in essence a property for countably dimensional algebras, as seen in the next proposition.
Socrates looked for the essence, necessary property or ineliminable trait that made particular acts pious or just.
Do essences (or properties in general) exist in the physical world?
According to some philosophers, there are also individual essences, essential properties that characterize individuals univocally (Plantinga 1974).
As noted earlier, quidditism is the view that the essences of properties consist of something logically different from their theoretical roles in Shoemaker's terms, their causal potentialities.
