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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 3. Knowing Kinds
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One sample of gold is enough, but one tree doesn't give the height of trees [Gelman]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 5. Reference to Natural Kinds
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Nouns seem to invoke stable kinds more than predicates do [Gelman]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
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Essentialism doesn't mean we know the essences [Gelman]
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Essentialism encourages us to think about the world scientifically [Gelman]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
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Essentialism starts from richly structured categories, leading to a search for underlying properties [Gelman]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / e. Anti scientific essentialism
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A major objection to real essences is the essentialising of social categories like race, caste and occupation [Gelman]
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