essentialism
<metaphysics, epistemology>
1) Platonic idealism
2) the view that all things have essential
properties which can be discerned by reason (sometimes attributed
to Aristotelianism). See substantialism
[The Ism Book]
Edited by Giovanni Benzi
<2001-03-16>
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