Ham,
but our theories coincide in that subjective quality is more fundamental
than objective quality. Idealism seems to be coming back to fashion
anyhow... well, I don't care about that, but I couldn't make the SOQ any
other way.
Both your essentialism and my SOQ seem to start with the following:
-initial absence of metaphysical realism, that is, belief in an external
world that consists of quarks and leptons and such
-a variant of idealism as the fundamental essence
-initial emphasis on the subjective
-the theory begins with what could perhaps even be called a mild form of
solipsism, but advances out of that
