what is psychological essentialism
Psychological essentialism refers to the tendency of people to group objects or people by some natural underlying essence that they are thought to share.Psychological essentialism opposes Jean Piaget's view of children as concrete thinkers who group objects based on superficial characteristics.edit] Aristotelian essentialism. Aristotelian essentialism was defined by WV Quine, writing in 1966, as the doctrine that some of the attributes of a thing (quite independently of the language in which the thing is referred to, if at all) may be essential to the thing and others accidental.