So across the political spectrum, for anyone thinking in essentialist terms, the mores render the word anathema from both directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Profanity: 3] Reference

These theories cater to what is called an "essentialist" approach to race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dummy Is Back...] Reference

Creating what he calls " essentialist " cuisine, Mr. Vollmer takes a less-is-more approach with an emphasis on fresh ingredients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dish: Avocado and caviar] Reference

This kind of essentialist thinking about the "Irish character" is hardly unique to Burgess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

Moser said these criteria are not essentialist, meaning that a person doesn't "have to have all six.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

When I was at college the big no-no was this kind of essentialist thinking, in which biology was destiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

This kind of essentialist belief permeates everyone’s lives to some degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Remains] Reference

But he's certainly capable of pithing essentialist idiocies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mirror For Ms. Bachman] Reference

As a result, species cannot be given essentialist definitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species] Reference

Clearly however, P3 is not free of non-trivial essentialist import.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

Do the arguments of Putnam and Kripke support an essentialist metaphysics?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

The obvious, but imperative, critique is that it is an essentialist theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [evolver Diary Entry] Reference

You have a curiously essentialist notion of how a state can be constituted.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

For the essentialist, it has real existence and can be treated as an active force.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Sense of Order': An Exchange] Reference

He illustrates how essentialist explanations have been replaced by evolutionary ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species] Reference

“Aristotle's biology was not essentialist,” in Gotthelf & Lennox 1987, pp. 291-312.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle's Biology] Reference

The pantheist has what Paul Taylor (1975: 132) calls "an essentialist conception of happiness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pantheism] Reference

Kripke and Putnam's semantic theories also seem to imply an essentialist metaphysics of natural kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Kinds] Reference

Research on the cultural production of diasporas has adopted an anti-essentialist approach to ethnicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE BRAM FISCHER MEMORIAL LECTURE FOR 2004 - BY PROFESSOR KADER ASMAL] Reference

Soloveitchik also applies his essentialist views to the roles of the parents in educating their children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soloveitchik, Rabbi Joseph Dov.] Reference

The mereological essentialist will deny that the resulting ship is identical to the ship with which we began.    From Wordnik.com.  [Material Constitution] Reference

I think saying that a bacterium is ‘millions of years old’ and we are not is making an essentialist mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth’s Elder] Reference

When goals are stipulated that man qua man should achieve this indicates an essentialist conception of human nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pantheism] Reference

Does not continental feminism, after all, undermine the possibility of any essentialist approach to women as a group?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Feminism] Reference

Following Thom (Thom (2008b)), we may refer to the first reading as the essentialist and the second as the actualist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic] Reference

At issue is a profound difference in seeing feminism as intersectional and global rather than essentialist and insular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kimberle Crenshaw and Eve Ensler: Feminist Ultimatums: Not In Our Name] Reference

Ockham, Buridan and their followers largely dropped thirteenth-century essentialist assumptions from modal syllogistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Modality] Reference

An essentialist conception of human nature may recognise a range of human natures compatible with "Human Nature" as such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pantheism] Reference

In response the essentialist will point out that the anti-essentialist's thought does not square very well with intuition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essential vs. Accidental Properties] Reference

Aristotelian (essentialist) definitions of species need to be abandoned; from an evolutionary perspective, in David Hull's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Genome Project] Reference

An alternative to the essentialist conception is the homeostatic property cluster theory of natural kinds (Millikan 1999).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Definition of Death] Reference

"I'm not the person to come to for essentialist ideas about black culture," says Studio Museum in Harlem curator Thelma Golden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harlem Goes 'Freestyle'] Reference

Whatever the case, it is clear that the feminist romance produced here is an essentialist mirror image of its masculinist counterpart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shulamit Lapid.] Reference

Furthermore, in an essentialist conception of happiness (one which presupposes that there is such a thing as an essential human nature).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pantheism] Reference

Result: her exhibition may not be essentialist, but for anybody interested in where contemporary art, with luck, might go next, it sure is essential. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harlem Goes 'Freestyle'] Reference