Essence and Accident
The Journal of PhilosophyPublished 11 November 1954
Irving M. Copi
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SNIP2.24
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Abstract
The notions of essence and accident play important and unobjectionable roles in pre-analytic or pre-philosophical thought and discourse. These roles are familiar, and need no elaboration here. Philosophers cannot ignore them, but must either explain them or (somehow) explain them away. My interest is in explaining them.
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