ACCUSATIONS OF ESSENTIALISM AS ATTEMPTS AT DECEPTION. I wonder if anyone who use

ACCUSATIONS OF ESSENTIALISM AS ATTEMPTS AT DECEPTION.
I wonder if anyone who uses the words essentialism or essentialist (usually fundamentalists or apologists ) has any idea what the term means.

Causality is what it is. A hierarchical chain that is ascertainable. Conversely, Essentialism in philosophy is an archaic concept that predates our present understanding of the entire spectrum of the sciences.

And it’s certainly rather silly in the context of our work documenting first principles from the first cause upward into the full complexity of experience.

One way to highlight the difference is through the classic example of water. From a scientific perspective, water is H2O – a compound of hydrogen and oxygen that serves multiple evolutionary functions, including as a universal solvent, with specific physical and chemical properties that can be empirically measured and manipulated. Calling something “water” is simply a convenient label for a set of observable characteristics, causal, and consequential relationships – as such it is a method of assisting in testimonial truth and preventing deception, deceit, and fraud.

But from an essentialist perspective, water might be seen as having an intrinsic “waterness” that goes beyond its physical composition and behavior – a metaphysical essence that makes it what it is, regardless of how humans understand or describe it.

So this is just another example of disambiguating causality necessary for action from conflating experience, including qualia, and auto-associative properties.

In other words it’s another example of masculine systematizing over time and feminine empathizing in time – which is the first cause of human differences.

It is usually used as technique of deception by which to undermine testifiable arguments with the pretense of magical, mystical, or privileged knowledge necessary to preserve bias from defeat by argument and evidence. In other words I have never seen an argument using essentialism as a pejorative that was not a fraud or deception.

Cheers