Philosophy: between essentialism and generalisation

There are numerous studies as to the detrimental effects of essentialism. This project has at least one (the book review of twilight) but the concept itself can be found in the orientalist impulses and in the practices of methodological violence. The differences between methodological violence and cultural appropriation is not always that linearily seperable.

The idea of generalization shares similarities with essentialism since both essentialism and generalization try to label things or people. See my upcoming elaboration on metaphysics. Whereas essentialism tries to define a single entity, generalization defines structures of multiple entities.

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