Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Wanderer and his Shadow', 'Emergent Evolution' and 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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Life has a new supervenient relation, which alters its underlying physical events [Morgan,L]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes

4422	The end need not be the goal, as in the playing of a melody (and yet it must be completed) [Nietzsche]

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

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