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General essences are ‘what it is’ to be that object, and is shared by all the particulars of that object. Individual essences capture ‘what it is’ to be a particular object as opposed to some other. [9] For Lowe, essences are not some particular thing you need to find. For example, H 2 O as the essence of water. Rather, you simply need ...
The philosopher E. J. Lowe wrote that Meaning and Necessity was "important and influential", and laid the foundations of much subsequent work in the semantics of modal logic. According to Lowe, the book was the culmination of Carnap's concern with the semantics of natural and formal languages , which developed subsequent to his publication of ...
E. J. Lowe may refer to: Edward Joseph Lowe (1825–1900), British botanist, meteorologist and astronomer E. J. Lowe (philosopher) (1950–2014), British philosopher
More critical views include those of philosophers such as Thomas Baldwin, [10] Frederick C. Beiser, [11] and E. J. Lowe. [12] Beiser writes that while Strawson is the most notable commentator to have argued that the central arguments of Kant's Analytic can be separated from Kant's transcendental psychology and transcendental idealism, his ...
E. J. Lowe, The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time, 1998 Amie Thomasson , Fiction and Metaphysics , 1999 Theodore Sider , Writing the Book of the World , 2011
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E. J. Lowe also proposed two types of predication: dispositional and occurrent. [26] The former describes an object's belonging to a kind possessing some property while the latter describes an object's possessing a trope of some property. [27] A third type was also proposed but it is a dispositional variant to express a law of nature. [27]
Essence (Latin: essentia) has various meanings and uses for different thinkers and in different contexts. It is used in philosophy and theology as a designation for the property or set of properties or attributes that make an entity the entity it is or, expressed negatively, without which it would lose its identity .