That move caught the attention of AOL Time Warner, which worried that public investors would be reluctant to invest in Time Warner Entertainment because of its complicated structure and that the weak stock could hurt the value of some of AOL Time Warner's essential properties, like HBO.
For example, Daniel Dennett (1978) has argued that our concept of pain is fundamentally flawed because it includes essential properties, like infallibility and intrinsic awfulness, that cannot co-exist in light of a well-documented phenomenon know as "reactive disassociation".
(Sufficiency theses of this sort can be hammered into essentialist theses by holding individuals like Obama to have essential properties like occupying the qualitative role of the President in 2014 if the world is qualitatively as it actually is).
Stronger, more interesting versions of essentialism like origin essentialism ascribe distinctive essential properties to individuals.
The conformational ensemble is a key concept to explain essential properties of proteins like function [ 28- 30], enzyme and antibody promiscuity [ 31, 32], enzyme catalytic power [ 33], signal transduction [ 34], protein-protein recognition [ 35] and the origin of new functions [ 36].
A common and persistent objection, however, is that no such characterizations can capture the qualitative character, or "qualia", of experiential states such as perceptions, emotions, and bodily sensations, since they would leave out certain of their essential properties, namely, "what it's like" (Nagel 1974) to have them.
That said, combinatorialism can arguably provide a reasonably robust analysis of intuitions about the essential properties of ordinary thick particulars like dogs or persons.
These templates abstract the essential properties that characterize problems for which a Valiant-like algorithmic approach can yield algorithms of improved time complexity.
In these works Warhol anticipated what would come to be known as Structural Film, which, like Modernist painting, calls attention to the essential properties of the medium.
(These worries, of course, will extend to intentional states, if, as some philosophers have argued (Searle 1992, G. Strawson 1986, Kriegel 2003, Pitt 2008), "what it's like" to have them is among their essential properties as well.
In the News Corp. announcement, Rupert Murdoch emphasized that James Murdoch would be overseeing "essential" properties, especially in the company's pay-for-view international television operations like Britain's BSkyB, other Sky franchises across Europe and Star TV in Asia.
