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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Scientific Essentialism' and 'Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa'

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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 3. Knowing Kinds

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There might be uninstantiated natural kinds, such as transuranic elements which have never occurred [Ellis]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

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Natural kinds are distinguished by resting on essences [Ellis]

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The properties of an electron can't be explained just as 'clustering' [Chakravartty on Boyd]

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Properties cluster together, either because of intrinsic relations, or because of an underlying process [Boyd, by Chakravartty]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 7. Critique of Kinds

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If there are borderline cases between natural kinds, that makes them superficial [Ellis]