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He concludes that unlike concepts of physical science that have been analyzed by philosophers, the gene concept has a "nonessentialistic character that allows biologists to lay down different natural classifications, depending on the investigative methods available as well as on theoretical interests" (Weber 2005, p. 228).
Molecular Genetics Waters, Ken 2007
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What Derridean thought utterly lacks is any sense of suchness-- a quality that can be "found" by taking the nondualistic, nonessentialistic route.
Binary Oppositions: Good or Bad? Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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But Derrida's movement, i.e., deconstruction in its various forms, bothers me for what it represents-- a clunky modern Western attempt at nonessentialistic, nondualistic thinking that (1) was already done better in certain aspects of Greek thought and (2) was certainly better presented in religious traditions like Buddhism, or in the often-subversive thought of a classic like the Chuang Tzu.
Binary Oppositions: Good or Bad? Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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