By essence I mean - paraphrasing the most intelligent person who has ever lived on this Earth (named Aristotle) - that abstract thing that permeates/that is throught/that is "in" the specie; and by existence: the concret thing itself (and, after, the abstraction we humans do from it, which is not the essence but merely a representation [image] of that thing or a concept [idea]).
Ok. What comes first for you, according to your understanding of these things...?
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I've a personal answer fot that.
2006-11-20
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