 mind what I often call the "Adamaic" view, that by naming all things
we are somehow graced with dominion over them.  So I mean the brand of
"essential" thinking that acts as if it believed that we could make up
the essences at will, instead of having to discover them through the
long hard labor of inquiry.  Any day now, on a recurring basis, one
expects such thinkers to pronounce that the whole of outer and inner
nature can be comprehended in just four elements and just four humors,
which I would think is 