Essentialism
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title:
Essentialism
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Essentialism is the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity. In early Western thought, Platonic idealism held that all things have such an "essence"—an "idea" or "form". In Categories, Aristotle similarly proposed that all objects have a substance that, as George Lakoff put it, "make the thing what it is, and without which it would be not that kind of thing". The contrary view—non-essentialism—denies the need to posit such an "essence". Essentialism has be
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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View that entities have identifying attributes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism
date created:
2002-04-07T11:04:38Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T18:52:34Z
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