The Essence Is Just the Set of Essential Properties

essence and an aristotelian tomis, terminology is just the real definition of something. If you talk about essential properties, we would say that the essence is the explanation for why all those properties conglomerate into a particular thing. So it's not the case to, like, my properties or just randomly, you know, like you put together on me. But it's that they're all united together with this very simple definition, rational animality.