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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds

7375	Quine probably regrets natural kinds now being treated as essences [Quine, by Dennett]

16935

If similarity has no degrees, kinds cannot be contained within one another [Quine]

16936

Comparative similarity allows the kind 'colored' to contain the kind 'red' [Quine]

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

16937

You can't base kinds just on resemblance, because chains of resemblance are a muddle [Quine]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory

16942

It is hard to see how regularities could be explained [Quine]

8541	Regularities theories are poor on causal connections, counterfactuals and probability [Armstrong]

8540	The introduction of sparse properties avoids the regularity theory's problem with 'grue' [Armstrong]