"For what my work is aiming at is, above all, realism: I pursue the inner, hidden reality, the very essence of objects in their own intrinsic findamental nature; this is my only deep preoccupation".
With 'objects' he does not refer to sensually perceived entities but to the more complex essence of objects (on Meinong's object-theoretic basis).
Combining an ADT with inheritance gives the essences of an object based paradigm.
In ontology, they developed theories of states of affairs and an account of modality according to which the most important type of necessity flows from the essences or natures of objects.
First, he defines the real essence of physical objects as the internal constitution of the substance that is the cause of the observable qualities of the object.
To understand what speculative etymology amounts to, it is useful to refer to the Cratylus (383a-d), where Plato presents his well-known naturalist thesis about word meaning: natural kind terms express the essence of the objects they name and words are appropriate to their referents insofar as they describe what their referents are (see the entry on Plato's Cratylus).
She could even channel the essence of inanimate objects, like a tampon or a grain of sand.
In terms of his own textual definition of magic, Madara cites a quotation from Jesper Sørensen's 2006 book, A Cognitive Theory of Magic Magicis is about changing the state or essence of persons, objects, acts and events through certain special and non-trivial kinds of actions with opaque causal mediation".
In social constructionism, rather than existing as an underlying essence, the meaning of objects emerges through social interaction.
Each hieroglyphic word both represented a specific object and embodied the essence of that object, recognizing it as divinely made and belonging within the greater cosmos.
