# Nominal and real essence

- Id: `nominal_and_real_essence`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/nominal-and-real-essence/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `a2ebec429f20fa5b7928fb2d04e24a2b2782f86596ad385d31243d273a9c11f4`

## Summary

Nominal essence is the abstract idea attached to a species name; real essence is the constitution producing its properties, often unknown to the classifier.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,114 passages across 1 works, including An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:locke.essay_human_understanding:B4.C9.S3",
    "passage:locke.essay_human_understanding:B4.C9.S2",
    "passage:locke.essay_human_understanding:B4.C9.S1"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 1114,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "locke.essay_human_understanding",
        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
    }
]
```