Making sense of ʺessenceʺ : a critical examination of the adequacy of the modern philosophical conception of ʺessenceʺ

The idea that some sub-set of the properties of an object captures what it is to be that thing i.e. that it has an essence which is there to be discovered and about which we can be mistaken - is a commonsense assumption that we use all the time. However, philosophers of this century have regarded th...

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Main Author: Ross, Allison
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Rhodes University 2000
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002850