[Ham] To get Essentialism "right", you start as the nihilist does by contemplating Nothingness, and you realize two things rather quickly: it's unimaginable, and it can't lead to anything. At that point you can either "give up" and say "all is vanity", or you can conclude, as I did, that the ultimate source of all things is the antithesis of nothingness -- absolute "IS-ness" -- the necessary primary source which I call Essence. That's the first step; but, unfortunately, it's too big a hurdle for most people, even for the gifted author of the MoQ who decided that metaphysics would destroy his poetry (still essentially mystical) and -- even worse -- take us back to religion and supernaturalism.
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