Full Idea
The new essentialism leads to a turning away from semantic analysis as a fundamental tool for the pursuit of metaphysical aims, ..since there is no reason to think that the language we speak accurately reflects the kind of world we live in.
Gist of Idea
Essentialism says metaphysics can't be done by analysing unreliable language
Source
Brian Ellis (The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism [2002], Ch.7)
Book Reference
Ellis,Brian: 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism' [Acumen 2002], p.138
A Reaction
The last part of that strikes me as false. We have every reason to think that a lot of our language very accurately reflects reality. It had better, because we have no plan B. We should analyse our best concepts, but not outdated, culture-laden ones.