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The view that objects have properties that are essential to them
The belief that people and/or phenomenon have properties that are essential to what they are In a feminist context, the belief in a unique and unchanging feminine essence existing above and beyond cultural conditioning See The question of Essentialism in Ecofeminism For an more extended discussion see 'What is Essentialism? '
An educational philosophy that emphasizes basic skills of reading, writing, mathematics, science, history, geography, and language
The educational philosophy that holds that the purpose of schools is to preserve the knowledge and values of the past while simultaneously providing students with the skills necessary to live successful and meaningful lives in present society
Any claim that art has an "essence" - that is, that there are necessary and sufficient conditions for art -- a "sine qua non" without which something is not art The six theories listed above are all essentialist theories
(n) - The practice of categorizing a group based on an artificial social construction that imparts an "essence" of that group, which homogenizes the group and effaces individuality and difference
{i} belief that all things have intrinsic properties that can be discovered by reason (Philosophy); theory that promotes teaching specific fundamental subjects and skills to all students (Education)
In ontology, the view that some properties of objects are essential to them. The "essence" of a thing is conceived as the totality of its essential properties. Theories of essentialism differ with respect to their conception of what it means to say that a property is essential to an object. The concept of an essential property is closely related to the concept of necessity, since one way of saying that a property P is essential to an object O is to say that the proposition "O has P" is necessarily true (see necessity). A general but not very informative way of characterizing essential properties is to say that a property is essential to an object if the object cannot lack the property and still be the object that it is. Properties of an object that are not essential in this sense are said to be accidental. See also identity of indiscernables

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An advocate of essentialism
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Of or pertaining to essentialism
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{i} person who believes in essentialism
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