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All the ideas for 'Deriving Kripkean Claims with Abstract Objects', 'On Aristotle's 'Metaphysics'' and 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism'

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7. Existence / E. Categories / 4. Category Realism

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Different genera are delimited by modes of predication, which rest on modes of being [Aquinas]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta

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Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection

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Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta]

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

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Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt]

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

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Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt]

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The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt]