Essentially
Essentially adverb - In essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature.
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Of itself and essentially are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Of itself" instead an adverb "Essentially".
Of itself
Essentially and of itself are semantically related. You can use "Essentially" instead an adverb phrase "Of itself".
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Bertrand Russell essentially broke set theory with his paradox: is "the set of all sets that are not members of themselves" a member of itself?
Source: Obvious Rule Patch - Ultron, essentially being evil computer software, falls under this, since no matter what, a portion of itself always exists in cyberspace.
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It took the world coming to an end for us to do it, but the ARK is essentially a von Neumann probe, capable of traveling the cosmos spreading copies of itself.
Source: Video Game / SOMA
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