Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences by Muhammad Ali Khalidi
How do-or how should-we parse the world into kinds of things? Going back at least to Plato, most philosophers have done so with respect to some notion or other of natural kinds. And many analyses of natural kinds have been essentialistic-that is defining those kinds with respect to universals, or s...
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| Language: | English |
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2015-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Scientific Exploration |
| Online Access: | http://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/900 |