(Philosophie) Théorie qui met l'essence avant l'existence.
1. An educational theory that ideas and skills basic to a culture should be taught to all alike by time-tested methods — compare PROGRESSIVISM.
2. A philosophical theory ascribing ultimate reality to essence embodied in a thing perceptible to the senses — compare NOMINALISM.
3. The practice of regarding something (as a presumed human trait) as having innate existence or universal validity rather than as being a social, ideological, or intellectual construct.