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Single Idea 15700
[filed under theme 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Full Idea
The notion of caste in India is more essentialized among upper-caste than lower-caste individuals.
Gist of Idea
In India, upper-castes essentialize caste more than lower-castes do
Source
Susan A. Gelman (The Essential Child [2003], 08 'Intro')
Book Ref
Gelman,Susan A.: 'The Essential Child' [OUP 2005], p.179
A Reaction
In a book defending fairly innate essentialism in the human race, Gelman offers this point as a warning that large cultural ingredients can be involved. Racism is the classic difficulty with essentialism.
The
27 ideas
with the same theme
[idea that objects have essences, as well as other features]:
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11199
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Aristotelian essence underlies behaviour, or underlies definition, or is the source of existence
[Aristotle, by Aquinas]
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12304
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Aristotelian essence is retained with identity through change, and bases our scientific knowledge
[Aristotle, by Copi]
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11294
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Aristotle says changing, material things (and not just universals) have an essence
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11298
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Are essences actually universals?
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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11202
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It is by having essence that things exist
[Aquinas]
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4828
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The essence of a thing is what is required for it to exist or be conceived
[Spinoza]
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12498
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Particular substances are coexisting ideas that seem to flow from a hidden essence
[Locke]
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12520
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The best I can make of real essence is figure, size and connection of solid parts
[Locke]
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13771
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Real essence is the constitution of the unknown parts of a body which produce its qualities
[Locke]
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12743
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A true being must (unlike a chain) have united parts, with a substantial form as its subject
[Leibniz]
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13088
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Subjects include predicates, so full understanding of subjects reveals all the predicates
[Leibniz]
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13077
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Basic predicates give the complete concept, which then predicts all of the actions
[Leibniz]
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12908
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Essences exist in the divine understanding
[Leibniz]
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13432
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The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii
[Leibniz]
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24089
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Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things
[Nietzsche]
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15576
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Heidegger seeks a non-traditional concept of essence as 'essential unfolding'
[Heidegger, by Polt]
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5443
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Kripke and others have made essentialism once again respectable
[Ellis]
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14666
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Socrates is a contingent being, but his essence is not; without Socrates, his essence is unexemplified
[Plantinga]
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11976
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Aristotelian essentialism says essences are not relative to specification
[Lewis]
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14221
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Serious essentialism says everything has essences, they're not things, and they ground necessities
[Shalkowski]
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11177
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Can the essence of an object circularly involve itself, or involve another object?
[Fine,K]
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12241
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Essences are real, about being, knowable, definable and classifiable
[Oderberg, by PG]
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15685
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Essentialism is either natural to us, or an accident of our culture, or a necessary result of language
[Gelman]
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15684
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Children's concepts include nonobvious features, like internal parts, functions and causes
[Gelman]
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15700
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In India, upper-castes essentialize caste more than lower-castes do
[Gelman]
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11889
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Essentialism must avoid both reduplication of essences, and multiple occupancy by essences
[Mackie,P]
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15110
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An essence and what merely follow from it are distinct
[Koslicki]
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