Essence signifies something common to all natures through which various beings are placed in various genera and species
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St Thomas Aquinas/On Being and Essence
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Essence is also called form, for the certitude of every thing is signified through its form 1 0 2The essence is that which is signified by the definition of the thing 1 0 2The term essence, used with respect to composite substances, signifies that which is composed of matter and form 1 0 2The essence of a genus and the essence of a species differ as signate from non-signate 1 0 2The genus signifies indeterminately the whole that is in the species and does not signify matter alone 1 0 2The species, as predicated of the individual, signify everything that is in the individual essentially, although it signifies this indistinctly 1 0 2The intention of genus or species is appropriate to the essence as the essence is signified as a whole 1 0 2The nature or essence can be considered in two ways: absolutely and according to its existence in this thing or in that 1 0 2In every other thing, the thing's existence is one thing, and its essence or quiddity or nature or form is another 1 0 2Essence exists in substances composed of matter and form, where existence is both received and limited 1 0 2