According to Petrus, knowledge is appearance of objects: man knows what exists by direct impressions, more or less clearly, but without intermediaries; forms, essences, and universals are fictions.
Which is: some cultures, just like some individuals, move from Form to Essence, some cultures, just like some individuals move from Essence to Form. - media can merely witness and document these shifts (that's journalism); - media can propel these shifts (in either direction, be it from Form to Essence, or from Essence to Form) in which case it is media of propaganda.
The answer Aristotle proposes is that the cause of being of a substance (e.g., of a house) is the form or essence that is predicated of the matter (e.g., of the bricks and stones) that constitute that substance.
And in both its sound and its physical form, its essence has been flexibility.
In terms of form, the essence of Classical French tragedy is a single action, seized at crisis point.
They would not be background buildings but, rather, would form the essence of the image of his project on the skyline.
The mere stuff or matter is not yet the real thing; it needs a certain form or essence or function to complete it.
All catering to conventions and tourism, all low-wage businesses paying workers from $5.15 an hour, the minimum wage, to $9 an hour for making beds and clearing tables, hotels and restaurants form the essence of the local economy.
Something of Platonism, nonetheless, survived in Aristotle's system in his beliefs that the reality of anything lay in a changeless (though wholly immanent) form or essence comprehensible and definable by reason and that the highest realities were eternal, immaterial, changeless self-sufficient intellects which caused the ordered movement of the universe.
Gene-directed protein synthesis, modification, and integration form the essence of all life processes, including OTM.
