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eˈssentialist, n. and a.
[f. essential a. and n. + -ist.]
A. n.
†1. The name given to a Nonjuror who held that the ‘usages’ which were omitted from the Second Prayer-book of Edward VI were ‘essential’. Obs.
1719(title), A Dialogue in Vindication of our present Liturgy and Service; between Timothy a Churchman and Thomas an Essentialist.
2. One who follows or advocates essentialism.
1945K. R. Popper Open Society I. iii. 25 These methodological essentialists also agreed with Plato.
B. adj. Of or relating to essentialism (in its various senses).
1938Newsweek 14 Mar. 26 (heading) Essentialist group urges pupils be coddled less and taught more. 1943Wyndham Lewis Let. 17 Aug. (1963) 365, I have been hearing a lot of talk about what appears to me a most promising movement in American education: namely the socalled ‘essentialist’, as opposed to the ‘progressive’ principle. 1945K. R. Popper Open Society I. iii. 27 The problems of the social sciences..are still..treated by essentialist methods. 1948Mind LVII. 302 Nineteenth century Idealist theories..are vitiated through and through by the ‘essentialist fallacy’. 1949E. L. Mascall Existence & Analogy ii. 19 A typical Thomist statement..tells us that in God essence and existence..are identical. Understood from the essentialist standpoint, this statement simply affirms that existence is analytically contained in the notion of God's essence. |