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Essence (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not an end, but a means, a means requiring the field of 'ideality' in order to know and to conquer its facticity.

An Essence (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not an end, but a means. Our existence is too tightly held in the world in order to know itself as such -it needs the field of 'ideality' in order to know and to conquer its facticity.

Essence (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not separate from existence. It is the function of language to make essences exist in a state of separation which is only apparent.

Essence (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠bring back with it all the living relationships of experience, as the fisherman's net draws up from the depths of the ocean quivering fish and seaweed.

Essence (n.) lies ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠beneath things, not above them: varying a thing in imagination never yields a pure form floating free of the world, only the joints and armature of the visible, still bound to the ground it came from.