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## Susan A. Gelman thing is almost unthinkable. . . . we are so stuck in our prejudices, so petrified intellectually, that to ow vulgarest names . . , we ascribe an eternal and exclusive worth. -James (I 890/ 1983, pp. 959-960) Essentialism. . . dominated the thinking of the western world to a degree that is still not yet fully appreciated by the historians of ideas. . . . It took more than two thousand years for biology, under the influence of Darwin, to escape the paralyzing grip of essentialism. -E. Mayr (1982, pp. 38, 87) People act as if things (e.g., objects) have essences or underlying natures that make them the thing that they are. Furthermore, the essence constrains or generates properties that may vary in their centrality. One of the things that theories do is to embody or provide causal linkages from deeper properties to more superficial or surface properties. -D. Medin (1989-D. Medin ( , p. 1476) )
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- Author
- Susan A. Gelman
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Psychology (Social Sciences)