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What does essentialism mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word essentialism? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (philosophy) The view that objects have properties that are essential to them.
  2. (philosophy) The theory that human beings are by nature good and that evil is the product of society.
  3. (education) The doctrine that there are certain traditional concepts, values, and skills that are essential to society and should be taught to all students.
  4. A lifestyle that seeks to minimize nonessentials in order to focus on what is important.
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For better or worse, essentialism is the quintessential American approach to education.
Some readers have discerned a strain of racial essentialism in his putatively social constructionist stance.
For example, Pinker attributes opposition to genetically modified foods to innate and intuitive essentialism.
Pipes's book is shot through with essentialism and questionable generalizations.
It is a different phenomenon from philosophical or metaphysical essentialism.
These symbols are the visual metonyms of Asian essentialism that have stagnated Asian Canadian discourse for some time.

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