{"id":7888,"date":"2019-05-22T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/essentialism\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:44","slug":"essentialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/essentialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Essentialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A philosophical belief, associated in particular with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hum.utah.edu\/~phanna\/classes\/ling5030\/webpostings\/notestwodogmas\/node6.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.hum.utah.edu\/~phanna\/classes\/ling5030\/webpostings\/notestwodogmas\/node6.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aristotle<\/a>, that it is possible to identify the unchanging essence of an individual in terms of a definitive set of properties that are individually necessary and collectively sufficient or, in the context of a study, a variable. &nbsp;In the past, this view was used as means of classifying taxa in opposition to evolutionary theories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"necessary_and_sufficient_conditions\">Necessary and sufficient conditions<\/a>, <a href=\"vitalism\">Vitalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A philosophical belief, associated in particular with Aristotle, that it is possible to identify the unchanging essence of an individual in terms of a definitive set of properties that are individually necessary and collectively sufficient or, in the context of a study, a variable. &nbsp;In the past, this view was used as means of classifying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/essentialism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Essentialism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}