If Peter Weston Wood is not essentially the same person as his protagonist, he is a genius unwilling to let on with a wink of condescension, of humor or elegant phrasing.
Nonetheless, even if we are not essentially persons, on the psychological view of our identity, we are essentially defined by our psychological properties.
When people do what is right, they believe they will receive a reward, while if they do what is wrong, they believe they will receive a punishment even if they do not essentially have the choice to do anything else.
For if we are not essentially persons — but, rather, for example, conscious minds of some other, less complex kind — an individual may very well lose the properties of a person without any threat to his numerical survival.
"Would we have these conflicts if they were not essentially the United States and Russia engaging over what is happening in the world?" Where superpowers have interests, the rest of the world has no effective voice in the conflict, Lee said.
Subsection (a) shall apply if the redemption is not essentially equivalent to a dividend.
This is a startling development – or it would be if the claim were not essentially wrong.
Surely if the universe were not essentially flat, it would long ago either have collapsed back upon itself, or have expanded so fast that matter would have long ago been diluted to irrelevancy on a cosmic scale.
Comparing the entropy generation numbers (EGN) derived for the heat generating areas with different internal complexities shows that the heat flow performance does not essentially improve if the internal complexity of the heat generating area increases.
As if everything He wills were not essentially wise, by virtue of the fact that He wills it?" (OA, 39 578).
