I have quickly acclimated myself to the standard form of greeting on campus: Oh hey what’s your name? … Yeah, nice to meet you, what're you studying? … Yo that’s sick! A script to recite, nearly verbatim, 10 times a day or more.

An essence exists if and only if it is actualized or concretized somehow, in some concrete form.

One thing to understand is that Biblical Greek grammarians have simply found the phrase “predicate position” a convenient label to describe the word structure of demonstrative + arthrous noun (with article) or arthrous noun + demonstrative

[…]the town-house is splendid, it is built on a public square, adorned with a tower and clock, similar to that of Lyons, a high column with a brazen statue of the Blessed Virgin, entirely gilt, a large water reservoir of a duodecagonal figure, and with a statue on a pedestal in the centre;