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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Resurrecting Biological Essentialism' and 'Contextualism Contested'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 10. Essence as Species

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Essentialism concerns the nature of a group, not its category [Devitt]

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Things that gradually change, like species, can still have essences [Devitt]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

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That standards vary with context doesn't imply different truth-conditions for judgements [Conee]

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Maybe there is only one context (the 'really and truly' one) for serious discussions of knowledge [Conee]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

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We name species as small to share properties, but large enough to yield generalisations [Devitt]

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Species are phenetic, biological, niche, or phylogenetic-cladistic [Devitt, by PG]