| 单词 | nominal essence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnominal essence 7. That which constitutes the being of a thing; that ‘by which it is what it is’. In two different applications (distinguished by Locke as nominal essence and real essence respectively): extracted from essencen. a. of a conceptual entity: The totality of the properties, constituent elements, etc., without which it would cease to be the same thing; the indispensable and necessary attributes of a thing as opposed to those which it may have or not. Also, in narrower sense, those among the indispensable attributes which involve all the rest by logical consequence, and are sufficient for a valid definition; the ‘connotation of the class-name’. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] > of a concept essence1593 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. i. 126 Those thinges, which supernaturally appertaine to the very essence of Christianitie. 1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists 20 [It] will proue but an appendance of an externall forme, no part of the essence of a true Church. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxx. 182 The essence of a Triangle, lies in a very little compass..three Lines meeting at three Angles, make up that Essence. 1714 J. Fortescue-Aland in J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. Pref. 6 We may exactly know the several Ideas that go to make each Law-term, and so their real Nature and Essence may be known. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §39. 140 To confound the transitory and special form with the characteristic and permanent essence. 1870 F. C. Bowen Logic iv. 74 Logic considers the Essence of a Concept to be the aggregate of its Marks. b. of a real entity: Objective character, intrinsic nature as a ‘thing-in-itself’; ‘that internal constitution, on which all the sensible properties depend’. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] pitheOE i-cundeeOE roota1325 substancec1330 juicec1380 marrowa1382 formc1385 acta1398 quidditya1398 substantial forma1398 inward1398 savourc1400 inwardc1450 allaya1456 essencya1475 being1521 bottom1531 spirit?1534 summary1548 ecceity1549 core1556 flower1568 formality1570 sum and substance1572 alloy1594 soul1598 inwardness1605 quid1606 fibre1607 selfness1611 whatness1611 essentialityc1616 propera1626 the whole shot1628 substantiala1631 esse1642 entity1643 virtuality1646 ingeny1647 quoddity1647 intimacy1648 ens1649 inbeing1661 essence1667 interiority1701 intrinsic1716 stamen1758 character1761 quidditas1782 hyparxis1792 rasa1800 bone1829 what1861 isness1865 inscape1868 as-suchness1909 Wesen1959 1667 H. More Divine Dialogues i. xxiv. 93 I might believe its [a spirit's] Existence, without meddling at all with its Essence. 1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. §2 In defining the Name there is no Necessity that we should be acquainted with the intimate Essence or Nature of the Thing. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. Introd. 7 The essence of the mind being equally unknown to us with that of external bodies. 1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit ix. 104 In fact, we have no proper idea of any essence whatever. 1808 J. Webster Elem. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 16 We clearly view the effects of attraction..but human ingenuity has not been able to fathom its principle or essence. 1856 J. F. Ferrier Inst. Metaphysic (ed. 2) ix. xi. 251 With the old philosophers the essence of things was precisely that part of them of which a clear conception could be formed. < as lemmas |
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