"humans have universal, reliably-developing essentialist intuitions": well, in the first place, in would be helpful to run more cross-cultural studies about essentialist intuitions to see whether they are indeed as widespread as is often assumed.
Psychological essentialism: often false but often adaptive; See Tadeg Quillien's adaptationist model of essentialism and relations to domain-specificity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513817303173#s0025 …
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Looking forward to reading Tadeg's piece & operationalization. Here's some preliminary cross-cultural evidence (from
@tintin2sn) that one common symptom of essentialism (intergenerational stability/inheritance) it's not so universal regarding human categories.pic.twitter.com/zB4MQyKcKO
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