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[–] neutronbumblebee@mander.xyz 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

And Plato would have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddling kids and their cladistics. Essentialism has been hugely damaging and is the foundation of most types of Creationism. https://newdiscourses.com/2021/02/essentialism-logical-fallacy-plaguing-us-since-plato/

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

Your link isn't working properly.

It's a cool read though - I'm still reading it, but so far it did a great job showing that concepts are fuzzy and inside our heads, not those well-defined abstractions in some external realm.