Assertion: kernel | /r/CapableOf | serve as vehicle
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: for doctrines
type: PURPOSE
value: in the history of western philosophy
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the history of Western philosophy, essence has often served as a vehicle for doctrines that tend to individuate different forms of existence as well as different identity conditions for objects and properties; in this logical meaning, the concept has given a strong theoretical and common-sense basis to the whole family of logical theories based on the "possible worlds" analogy set up by Leibniz and developed in the intensional logic from Carnap to Kripke, which was later challenged by "extensionalist" philosophers such as Quine.