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Definition of Essences
1. essence [n] - See also: essence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Essences
Literary usage of Essences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ontology Or the Theory of Being: An Introduction to General Metaphysics by Peter Coffey (1914)
"Renouncing Plato's exaggerated realism, and holding that our knowledge of the
ideal order of possible essences is derived by our mind from its consideration ..."
2. The Literature of the Church of England Indicated in Selections from the by Richard Cattermole (1844)
"To prevent all mistake, I shall again remember what I have before intimated, that
where it is affirmed that the essences of all things are eternal and ..."
3. Ontology, Or, The Theory of Being; an Introduction to General Metaphysics by Peter Coffey (1914)
"But granting that it does apprehend essences in this manner, we seem to have in
this fact a sufficient explanation of the features just referred to. ..."
4. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First Added, I. An by John Locke (1828)
"For these abs- essences- tract ideas being the workmanship of the mind, and not
referred to the real existence of things, there is no supposition of any ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Locke got rid of the old doctrine by making the "supposed essences" no more ...
He does not, indeed, deny that there are real essences; on the contrary, ..."
6. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1869)
"The essences of individuals were an unmeaning figment arising from a misapprehension
of the ... He distinguished two sorts of essences, Real and Nominal. ..."
7. A Treatise on Pharmacy by Edward Parrish (1884)
"The following pnx'esses for some of the most prominent of these essences, in
connection with the foregoing syllabi, will be found to facilitate their ..."
8. On Spinozistic Immortality by George Stuart Fullerton (1899)
"The essences of even the most ardent realist ought to have about them ...
Spinoza has not really transferred a portion of the mind to the world of essences. ..."
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