Sentence examples for notion of essence from inspiring English sources

Correia (2013) considers the prospects of various analyses in terms of the notion of essence.

He draws on Aristotle's notion of essence but removes all capacities for producing effects.

The relevant notion of dependence appears to be built into Fine's notion of essence and, similarly, the notion of essence assumed by Fine (and many other "neo-Aristotelians") is already built into (EDC).

When Nāgārjuna argues that things are empty of svabhāva it is not this notion of essence he is concerned with.

Some varieties of ontological dependence may be analyzed in modal terms that is, in terms of distinctly metaphysical notions of possibility and necessity while others seem to demand an analysis in terms of the notion of essence.

(For the modal characterization, see Topics 102b5ff; for the definitional, see Metaphysics 1031a12; and for the explanatory, see Posterior Analytics 74b5ff. For more on the notion of essence in Aristotle's work, see the entry on Aristotle's Metaphysics).

Yet Reinach explicitly rejected any notion of essences of the sort that would generate any form of third man argument.

Preoccupied with existence--immediate, direct, and primal--Existentialism seeks to erase all trace of the tyrannical notion of essence--that is, absolute, distinct, and unalterable identity, the kind that so often insisted it possessed the truth, like no other.

In this perspective, the classical notions of essence and intension are respectively interpreted as sets of necessary and defeasible consequences, giving rise to a relation ⊢ analogous to that of classical consequence, and a relation ∼ which behaves, relatively to ⊢, like a supraclassical rational inference relation.

Writers and artists in all media question human existence while seeking to purge humanity of the notions of essence that spur great nations and civilizations to adopt the conceit of their superiority over less powerful societies.

When coupled with the observation that students may readily replace their intuitive notions of "essence" with a quasi-scientific notion of DNA (see Gelman and Rhodes, 2012), these extensions of essentialist thinking may lead to the last two misconceptions listed above.