Sentences with phrase «essentialism cuts»

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There's the usual tangle here of nature and nurture, the difficulty of holding which unresolved can tempt us to cut the knot with a Gordian «All [men][women] are... such and so,» and «All [white][black][brown][yellow][red] people are... such and so,» whether based in some essentialism or in the view that social attitudes and roles operate so broadly and effectively that the result is largely indistinguishable from that which would be produced by essential differences.