What Makes an RPG an RPG
Created: 2025-11-07
The agency theory of fun is grounded on an underlying aesthetic theory of essentialism in art. The concept of essentialism originated with Plato and was formulated into a comprehensive theory by Aristotle. Essentialism claims that every thing has an essence, where an essence is the attribute or set of attributes that makes a thing be the kind of thing that it fundamentally is.
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Created: 2025-11-07
Having done so, we now find the thing’s essence from among its necessary attributes. While all essences are necessary attributes, not all necessary attributes are essences. What differentiates a thing’s essence from its (merely) necessary attributes is that its essence explains why it has the other properties the thing is known to have. Essence is the formal cause of why something is what it is.