0 the basic or most important idea or quality of something: --
1 a strong liquid, usually from a plant or flower, that is used to add a flavour or smell to something: --
2 the basic meaning or importance of something: --
3 a chemical substance obtained from plants that has a strong smell or taste and can be used to flavor foods or provide a pleasant smell, such as in perfumes --
Not everyone, of course, is comfortable with references to essences, essential natures or, for that matter, analyses in terms of possible worlds.
Systems of categorisation rarely reflect internal essences, but more commonly reflect systems of belief.
The tectonic view of architecture promises to tie the development of theory back to the essences of construction and experience.
Why essences are essential in the psychology of concepts.
The cardinality would be !0 if personal types of essences vary atomistically, while the cardinality would be at least !1 if personal essences vary continuously.
A metaphysically perfect system is one that actualizes the greatest number of possibilities of the greatest number of essences or forms.
Coates is careful to avoid overgeneralization in framing her analysis; she notes that the gender binary she describes emerges from gender ideologies rather than essences.
He rejects this account on two grounds: it cannot explain how we handle new properties, and it does not fit with our intuitions about essences.