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源自拉丁语 'essentia'(本质)+ 后缀 '-ism'(主义),19世纪哲学术语。
❶ 本质主义,一种哲学观点,认为事物具有固定不变的本质或特性,这些本质决定了其身份和分类。
“Essentialism suggests that every entity has a set of attributes necessary to its identity.”
(本质主义认为每个实体都有一组对其身份至关重要的属性。)
“The debate over essentialism in biology revolves around whether species have fixed characteristics.”
(生物学中关于本质主义的争论围绕着物种是否具有固定特性展开。)
biological essentialism — 生物本质主义,认为生物特性(如性别)由不可改变的先天因素决定,常被用于社会性别讨论中。
“Biological essentialism has been challenged by modern gender studies.”
(现代性别研究对生物本质主义提出了挑战。)