An explanatory essence, as required by the homeostatic property cluster account (Boyd) or traditional essentialism, must be a causally active intrinsic property that sustains the cluster of kind-typical traits.
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Kind-typical traits(as used in philosophy of language and metaphysics)
The usual or characteristic features that members of a particular category or type normally have.
Traditional essentialism(as used in metaphysics)
The older philosophical view that every kind of thing has one or more essential features that make it what it is—remove those features and it's no longer that thing.
intrinsic property(Contrasted with relational property in the analysis of molecular shape)
A property possessed by an object independently of its relations to other things