The essence of postmodernism is precisely that we should avoid pointing out essentialist patterns in the past.

后现代主义的精髓正是，我们应该避免指出过去中的本质主义模式。

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He has sponsored a revival of an essentialist programme in metaphysics that traces back to Aristotle and the Scholastics.

他发起了对形而上学中的本质主义纲领的复兴，这一纲领可以一直追溯到亚里士多德和经院哲学家。

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Modem science is based upon subject - object dualism, essentialist reductionism and causal determinism. Those are the source of "the crisis of modernity".

现代科学立足于主客二元论、本质主义还原论和因果决定论之上，这正是“现代性危机”的病根。

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I'm not trying to make the essentialist argument that the only good comics are the ones that avoid strategies from other media.

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