By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.


Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge (ed. 1920)

George Santayana Quotes

By essence I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.......

By essence I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.......

By essence I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.......

By essence I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.......