📚 noun • entry_id 43769
essentialism
Meanings (ES + gloss)
esencialismo
The view that objects have properties that are essential to them.
More problematic is the essentialism that interests modal logicians, namely "the view that some attributes belong to an object by necessity whereas others belong to it contingently…
Opponents of essentialism argue that "essences" are simply creations of language and culture.
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