{"id":875,"date":"2019-09-01T10:59:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/?page_id=875"},"modified":"2020-09-05T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:42:46","slug":"essentialism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-2\/2-2\/essentialism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#128203; Essentialism in Everyday Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Essentialism is the idea that the way we categorize the people and things around us reflects their inner and essential nature, that our categories capture &#8220;natural kinds&#8221; in the word. This idea seems to be built in to the human mind since it spontaneously appears in both historical and childhood development, in spite of the fact that the categories that we use are more imposed on things rather than found in them. This article explains essentialism and shows how it is a feature of our everyday thinking about the people and things we encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/science\/about\/psa\/2005\/05\/gelman\">Essentialism in Everyday Thought<\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essentialism is the idea that the way we categorize the people and things around us reflects their inner and essential<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":430,"menu_order":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-875","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4617,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/875\/revisions\/4617"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}