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单词 essential form
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essential form
2. Of or pertaining to essence, specific being, or intrinsic nature. essential difference (Logic): = ‘specific difference’, differentia n. essential character: in scientific classification, the marks which distinguish a species, genus, etc. from the others included with it in the next superior division. essential proposition (Logic): one which predicates of a subject something that is implied in its definition. †essential name (Theology): see quot. 1495. essential form (metaphorical): see form n.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [adjective]
substantial?a1425
essential1495
quidditativec1600
quiddative1642
substantial1649
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) i. sig. Aiv/1 The names signyfienge or betokenynge the dyuyne essence or beynge ben callid names essencialles.
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. I7 The essentiall fourme of Marble stone, Tempered by science metaphisicall.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. ii. 49 In which essentiall vnitie of God.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F2 Deceit or vntruth..doth destroy the essentiall fourme of knowledge, which is nothing but a representation of truth. View more context for this quotation
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 4 [The copula] signifies an essentiall attribution (that is) that, the latter part of the definition doth giue being vnto the former.
1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon 3 Rationability..is a substantiall part of a man, because it is a part of his definition, or his essentiall difference.
1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision vii. Notes 6 Essential Forms I say, rather than Substantial.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 63 Its [sc. Virtue's] having, in the essential Nature of the thing, a Tendency to procure them [sc. Superiority and Advantages].
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 212 The nectary gives the essential character.
1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) i. vi. §4 An essential proposition then, is one which is purely verbal.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 171 The desire to ascertain..the essential nature of virtue.
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