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Zachar, Peter. "The Psychological Construction of Emotion – A Non-Essentialist Philosophy of Science." Emotion Review 14, no. 1 (November 24, 2021): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17540739211058715.

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Advocates for the psychological construction of emotion view themselves as articulating a non-essentialist alternative to basic emotion theory's essentialist notion of affect programs. Psychological constructionists have also argued that holding essentialist assumptions about emotions engenders misconceptions about the psychological constructionist viewpoint. If so, it is important to understand what psychological constructionists mean by “essentialism” and “non-essentialism.” To advance the debate, I take a deeper dive into non-essentialism, comparing the non-essentialist views of the early empiricists with those of the psychological constructionists, focusing on the theories of James Russell and Lisa Barrett. Using Lakatos’ notion of scientific research programs, I also describe how Russell's and Barrett's views have evolved into different and potentially competing research programs under the psychological constructionist banner.

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Narayan, Uma. "Essence of Culture and a Sense of History: A Feminist Critique of Cultural Essentialism." Hypatia 13, no. 2 (1998): 86–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1998.tb01227.x.

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Drawing parallels between gender essentialism and cultural essentialism, I point to some common features of essentialist pictures of culture. 1 argue that cultural essentialism is detrimental to feminist agendas and suggest strategies for its avoidance, Contending that some forms of cultural relativism buy into essentialist notions of culture, I argue that postcolonial feminists need to be cautious about essentialist contrasts between “Western” and “Third World” cultures.

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Rocca, Michael Della. "Essentialists and Essentialism." Journal of Philosophy 93, no. 4 (1996): 186–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2940887.

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Gunardi, Ahmad, and Sry Hartati. "Essentialist Educational Philosophy (Doctrine and Its Influence in the Context of Modern Education)." Journal of Innovation in Teaching and Instructional Media 4, no. 3 (April 22, 2024): 179–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.52690/jitim.v4i3.818.

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The philosophy of essentialism is a conservative educational philosophy formulated as a critique of progressive educational practices in schools. Essentialists argue that the main function of schools is to convey cultural and historical heritage to the younger generation. Essentialism is not an independent philosophical building, but rather a critique of progressive education. This school of essentialism views that education which is based on the view of flexibility in all its forms can be a source of views that are changing, easy to change, lacking focus, uncertain and unstable.

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Rosyidan, Yasir. "FILSAFAT PENDIDIDIKAN ESENSIALISME DAN PERENIALISME." AL-MUTSLA 6, no. 1 (June 30, 2024): 73–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.46870/jstain.v6i1.832.

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Abstract The philosophy known as essentialism advocates a return of humanity to ancient civilizations. According to their beliefs, humanity has benefited greatly from ancient culture. The Essentialist school of thought prioritizes not abandoning cultures that have survived for a long time. Essentialism and permanence have similar properties. During the 13th century AD, perennialism proudly recognized the success of the ideas and thoughts of ancient civilizations, including Greece and the Middle Ages. They believe that the ideas and concepts of these two eras are still valuable today. This approach uses a qualitative methodology, which involves the use of a 'literature research model that analyzes content from multiple sources and combines references. This study seeks to investigate the philosophical stance of essentialism and perennialism in relation to education. Keywords: Philosophy, Essentialism and Perenialism.

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Wallner, Michael, and Anand Vaidya. "Essence, Explanation, and Modality." Philosophy 95, no. 4 (July 28, 2020): 419–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819120000200.

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AbstractRecently, Kit Fine's (1994) view that modal truths are true in virtue of, grounded in, or explained by essentialist truths has been under attack. In what follows we offer two responses to the wave of criticism against his view. While the first response is pretty straightforward, the second is based on the distinction between, what we call, Reductive Finean Essentialism and Non-Reductive Finean Essentialism. Engaging the work of Bob Hale on Non-Reductive Finean Essentialism, we aim to show that the arguments against Fine's view are unconvincing, while we acknowledge the presence of a deep standoff between the two views.

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Sharpe, Mary, and Annette Rudel. "Essentialism as a Contributing Factor in Ideological Resonance and Dissonance Between Women and Their Midwives in Ontario, Canada." Canadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice 8, no. 2 (May 27, 2024): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22374/cjmrp.v8i2.138.

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The social reform movement that led to the regulation of midwifery care in Ontario benefited from a discourse that tended to essentialize depictions of the woman receiving midwifery care, the midwife and the woman- midwife relationship. The Philosophy of Midwifery Care in Ontario document for women and midwives reflects this history and supports certain essentialist tendencies. Examining the experiences of women and midwives in midwifery care post-legislation through life history qualitative research reveals ways in which this culture persists within contemporary midwifery discourse. However, the experiences of women and midwives also reveal contradictions within the philosophy of midwifery care document which tend to create problems for essentialism while supporting the element of choice in midwifery care.

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Fuss, Diana J. "“Essentially Speaking”: Luce Irigaray's Language of Essence." Hypatia 3, no. 3 (1988): 62–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1988.tb00189.x.

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Luce Irigaray's fearlessness towards speaking the body has earned for her work the dismissive label “essentialist.” But Irigaray's Speculum de l'autre femme and Ce Sexe qui n'en est pas un suggest that essence may not be the unitary, monolithic, in short, essentialist category that anti-essentialists so often presume it to be. Irigaray strategically deploys essentialism for at least two reasons: first, to reverse and to displace Jacques Lacan's phallomorphism; and second, to expose the contradiction at the heart of Aristotelian metaphysics which denies women access to “Essence” while at the same time positing the essence of “Woman” precisely as non-essential (as matter).

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Wheeler, Samuel C. "Quine, Davidson, Relative Essentialism and the Question of Being." Open Philosophy 1, no. 1 (August 25, 2018): 115–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2018-0009.

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AbstractRelative essentialism, the view that multiple objects about which there are distinct de re modal truths can occupy the same space at the same time, is a metaphysical view that dissolves a number of metaphysical issues. The present essay constructs and defends relative essentialism and argues that it is implicit in some of the ideas of W. V. Quine and Donald Davidson. Davidson’s published views about individuation and sameness can accommodate the common-sense insights about change and persistence of Aristotle and Kripke. Aristotle and Kripke have to give up unmediated direct reference resting on a unique correct articulation of reality into entities. Davidson has to acknowledge a distinction between descriptions giving accidental and those giving essential features of an object. Quine and Davidson were in a position to be a relative essentialist, but were over-impressed by supervenience. The relative essentialist view of beings developed from Quine and Davidson strongly suggests the Heideggerian distinction between beings and Being, and is the perspective from which analytic philosophy can engage that topic. Relative essentialism also connects analytic philosophy to Derrida’s thinking about differance.

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Tabachnick, David Edward. "Heidegger's Essentialist Responses to the Challenge of Technology." Canadian Journal of Political Science 40, no. 2 (June 2007): 487–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423907070151.

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Abstract.This paper is an effort to defend Heidegger's essentialist philosophy of technology against the charge of determinism. Rather than merely accepting its all-encompassing power, Heidegger provides three responses to the challenge of technology: 1) “aggressive essentialism” or the elimination of technology; 2) “moderate essentialism” or the reform of political, social and cultural institutions to better reflect the changes that technology brings; and 3) “passive essentialism” or the acceptance that we cannot act against or direct technology.Résumé.Dans cet article, l'auteur s'efforce de défendre la philosophie d'essentialisme de technologie proposée par Heidegger contre l'accusation de déterminisme. Plutôt que simplement accepter le pouvoir omniprésent de la technologie, Heidegger fournit trois réponses au défi qu'elle présente: 1) “ l'essentialisme agressif ”, ou l'élimination de la technologie; 2) “ l'essentialisme modéré ”, ou la réforme des institutions politiques, sociales et culturelles pour mieux refléter les changements apportés par la technologie; et 3) “l'essentialisme passif ”, ou l'acceptation du fait que nous ne pouvons ni agir contre la technologie ni la diriger.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Essentialism (Philosophy)"

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Djukic, George. "Essentialism : Paradise lost /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phd626.pdf.

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Logue, Jessica Wollam. "Context and anti-essentialism a thoroughgoing approach /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.

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Mackie, P. "How things might have been : A study in Essentialism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234316.

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Ross, Allison. "Making sense of ʺessenceʺ : a critical examination of the adequacy of the modern philosophical conception of ʺessenceʺ." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002850.

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The idea that some sub-set of the properties of an object captures what it is to be that thing i.e. that it has an essence which is there to be discovered and about which we can be mistaken - is a commonsense assumption that we use all the time. However, philosophers of this century have regarded the realism about essence with skepticism, arguing that we impose essences on things by the way we define our concepts as opposed to discovering them. Essences are supposedly characteristics of our concepts rather than of objects in the world. This was the orthodox view until a group of philosophers of language developed the theory of direct reference. They claimed that proper names and certain other words refer non-connotatively which entails that the real properties of objects are crucial to the establishment of the reference of such terms. It can be shown that the properties involved in reference determination must be all and only the necessary properties of those objects. This discovery has been taken to mark the rehabilitation of the notion of essence, with an object’s essence being taken to be that set of properties which it must have in all possible worlds in which it exists. I will argue that the theory of direct reference is correct up to the point at which it assimilates the necessary properties of objects to their essences. I will show that the set of an object’s necessary properties cannot fulfill the role reserved for the concept of essence in metaphysical hypotheses concerning the nature of objects. I will go on to show that a sub-set of a thing’s necessary properties can fulfill this role and I will suggest that we identify the members of this sub-set by testing their ability to furnish the kinds of explanations we expect from essences. I will demonstrate how this can be done using the Aristotelian idea that the notion of essence is required in order to explain how it is that objects can persist through change.

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Fulfer, Katherine N. "The concept of "woman" feminism after the essentialism critique /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202008-093433/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from file title page. Christie J. Hartley, Andrew I. Cohen, committee co-chairs; Andrew Altman, committee member. Electronic text (70 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed August 1, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-70).

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Deng, Duen-Min. "A theory of essence : an Aristotelian notion reconstructed." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607781.

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Spinelli, Nicola. "Husserlian essentialism revisited : a study of essence, necessity and predication." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/79543/.

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Husserlian Essentialism is the view, maintained byEdmundHusserl throughout his career, that necessary truths obtain because essentialist truths obtain. In this thesis I have two goals. First, to reconstruct and flesh out Husserlian Essentialism and its connections with surrounding areas of Husserl's philosophy in full detail – something which has not been done yet. Second, to assess the theoretical solidity of the view. As regards the second point, after having presented Husserlian Essentialism in the first two chapters, I raise a serious problem for it in Chapter 3. In the remainder of the thesis I endeavour to solve the problem. In order to do so, I propose to amend both Husserl's theory of essence and his theory of predication. The bulk of the emendation consists in working out an account of essence and an account of predication that do not presuppose, or in any way imply, the claims that: 1) for a universal to be in the essence of an object, either the object or one of its parts must instantiate the universal; 2) for a universal to be truly predicated of an object, either the object or one of its parts must instantiate the universal. These claims, notice, apart from being what gets Husserl in trouble, are well entrenched not only in Husserl's, but in most theories of essence and predication (at least in those that feature universals). It is thus interesting to see what an alternative option may be – even regardless of the Husserlian setting in which I work it out.

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Chan, Ka-wo, and 陳嘉和. "What if natural kind terms are rigid?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41633878.

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Heyes, Cressida J. "'Back to the rough ground!' : Wittgenstein, essentialism, and feminist methods." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ36981.pdf.

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Cameron, Jonathan. "Some philosophical refections on the "essentialist" v/s "constructivist" debate as it stands to the philosophical analysis of mystical experience." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=165861.

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‘Essentialism’ and ‘constructivism’ are two epistemological perspectives that have been used in the philosophical analysis of mystical experience. ‘Essentialism’ attempts to establish mystical experience as a distinct category of experience, cutting across cultural boundaries. ‘Constructivism’ attempts to establish mystical experience as unique to its various cultural contexts. The two viewpoints are variously held in opposition. ‘Constructivism’ often appears as something of an assumed perspective and is rarely, if ever, defended (in any depth) by the individuals whose views it apparently represents. Recent ‘essentialist’ thinkers (‘non-constructivists’) have taken issue with this tendency to assume ‘what is to be proved’, and have reasoned in attempts to establish ‘constructivisim’ as inappropriate to certain experiences that appear to be found recurring in reports of mystical experiences across cultures. However, those analyses have been concerned to recommend their own (‘essentialist’ / ‘non-constructivist’) position and have, therefore, operated with a certain amount of bias, despite elements of commendable intent. Indeed it is in virtue of these commendable elements i.e. by exploring the epistemological assumptions of authors who attempt to make mystical experience culture specific, that ‘essentialists’ posit and provide justification for the classification of ‘constructivism’ as a distinct philosophical approach to the data of enquiry. ‘Constructivists’ (so-called), on the other hand, tend to emphasise the importance and role of context in their discussions, and in some cases reject the classification of their views as particularly ‘constructivist’. The thesis examines the reasonable defensibility of ‘nonconstructed’ mystical experience from three perspectives: ‘essentialist’, ‘constructivist’ and ‘contextualist’ – outlining considerations for anyone approaching the material via each, and addressing the relevant issues of diversity at tension between these recognisable philosophical viewpoints.

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Books on the topic "Essentialism (Philosophy)"

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A, French Peter, Uehling Theodore Edward, and Wettstein Howard K, eds. Studies in essentialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.

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Hallett, Garth. Essentialism: A Wittgensteinian critique. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.

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Denkel, Arda. Object and property. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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LaPorte, Joseph. Natural kinds and conceptual change. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Goldin, Owen Michael. The role of the demonstration that explains an essence in Aristotle's theory of explanation. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1988.

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Mohanty, Jitendranath. Phenomenology: Between essentialism and transcendental philosophy. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1997.

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Korzhuev, A. V. Kategorii︠a︡ "sushchnostʹ" i smyslopoiskovyĭ aspekt fizicheskogo poznanii︠a︡. Moskva: I︠A︡nus-K, 1999.

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Charles, David. Aristotle on meaning and essence. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.

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Phileïde, Jean. L' harmonie des paradoxes. Paris: Pensée universelle, 1985.

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Elisabeth, Weber. Verfolgung und Trauma: Zu Emmanuel Lévinas' Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence. Wien: Passagen, 1990.

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Book chapters on the topic "Essentialism (Philosophy)"

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Brown, Nicholas Mainey. "Essentialism." In Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy, 210. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2068-5_125.

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Forbes, Graeme. "Essentialism." In A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 881–901. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118972090.ch34.

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Mikkola, Mari. "Gender Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism." In The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, 168–79. 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge philosophy companions: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315758152-15.

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Wilkins, John S. "Essentialism in Biology." In The Philosophy of Biology, 395–419. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6537-5_19.

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Dumsday, Travis. "Scientific Essentialism." In The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy, 181–93. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003008750-15.

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Lam, Ka Ho. "Dispositional Essentialism." In The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy, 194–208. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003008750-16.

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Robertson Ishii, Teresa. "Origin Essentialism." In The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy, 169–80. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003008750-14.

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Tahko, Tuomas E. "Natural Kind Essentialism." In The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy, 156–68. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003008750-13.

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Pandit, G. L. "Methodological Essentialism in Science and in Philosophy." In Methodological Variance, 99–150. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3174-2_5.

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Hanzel, Igor. "The Inherent Law and Essentialism." In The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology, 122–33. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3265-9_8.

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Conference papers on the topic "Essentialism (Philosophy)"

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Kitamura, Yoshinobu, and Riichiro Mizoguchi. "Some Ontological Distinctions of Function Based on the Role Concept." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-87168.

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Function is an important aspect of artifacts in engineering design. Although many definitions of function have been proposed in the extensive research mainly in engineering design and philosophy, the relationship among them remains unclear. Aiming at a contribution to this problem, this paper investigates some ontological issues based on the role concept in ontological engineering. We discuss some ontological distinctions of function such as essentiality and actuality and then propose some fundamental kinds of function such as essential function and capacity function. Based on them, we categorize some existing definitions in the literature and clarify the relationship among them. Then, a model of function in a product life-cycle is proposed. It represents the changes of existence of the individuals of each kind of function, which are caused by designing, manufacturing and use. That model enables us to give answers to some ontological questions such as when and where a function exists and what a function depends on. The consideration on these issues provides engineers with some differentiated viewpoints for capturing functions and thus contributes to consistent functional modeling from a specific viewpoint. The clarified relationships among the kinds of function including the existing definitions in the literature will contribute to interoperability among functional models based on the different kinds and/or definitions.

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