Sentence examples for formal essence from inspiring English sources

So maybe this is the first novel since Virginia Woolf's The Waves and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet to conceive of itself - of its own formal essence - as the product of the world after Einstein, and the first to justify such a claim since Ulysses.

But it is clear that in characterizing intuition the essence involved is formal essence, and so that I discuss only formal essence in this paper.

The Ethics discusses two kinds of essence, formal essence and actual essence.

It is knowledge proceeding "from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God to the adequate knowledge of the essence of things" (IIp40s2).

Some commentators have even claimed that the (formal) essence of a mode is in fact shared with other modes of its kind.

Reason does this from "the fact that we have common notions and adequate ideas of the properties of things," while intuition proceeds "from an adequate idea of the formal essence of certain attributes of God".

For a recent attempt to connect Spinoza's infinite modes with other pieces of his ontology (notably formal essences), see Garrett 2009.

He explains the comprehension or containment of non-divine formal essences in conceptual terms: "Essences [of non-existing things] are comprehended in another in such a way that they can be conceived through it" (Ip8s2).

"The ideas of singular things, or of modes, that do not exist must be comprehended God's infinite idea in the same way as the formal essences of singular things, or modes, are contained in God's attributes" (IIp8).

As well as explicitly distinguishing categories of meanings from categories of the correlated objects that could possibly be 'meant', Husserl introduced a second innovation to the study of categories by distinguishing highest formal essences (which Husserl calls 'categories') from highest material essences (which he calls 'regions') (1913/1962, §10; cf. Smith 1995, 329 330 and Smith 2007, 142 148).

Essence can be considered in itself, without actuality, and yet it seems more difficult to conceive of it without its own being, since, from a formal perspective, essence is always its being, and the relation of participation in divine essence that constitutes every essence is eternal and indestructible.