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| Essence, philosophy: the essence of an object is understood to mean one or more properties without which the object is inconceivable. Critics argue that such necessary properties can only be attributed to concepts, but not to empirical objects. See also features, essentialism, ultimate justification, properties, metaphysics, concepts, necessity de re, substance._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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J. Locke on Essence - Dictionary of Arguments
Arndt II 196 Essence/Nature/Locke/Arndt: only in the language itself the objectivity of our general knowledge is constituted. - That is the "nominal essence". II 199 Real being: a real but unknown nature of insensible parts. II 200 That we call "cause" or basis of our complex idea. >Idea/Locke. II 203 There is no other measure of the essence or the specific, as our abstract ideas. II 205 What assigns each particular to a class or a generic name (general term). >General term, >Class, >Individual, >Particular, >Classification, >Generality._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Loc III J. Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Loc II H.W. Arndt "Locke" In Grundprobleme der großen Philosophen - Neuzeit I, J. Speck (Hg), Göttingen 1997 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19