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All the ideas for 'On Motion', 'Oxford University Statutes' and 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

8074	There is a five shilling fine for each point of divergence from the thinking of Aristotle [Oxford Univ 1350]

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 / B. Modern Physics / 1. Relativity / a. Special relativity

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Motion is not absolute, but consists in relation [Leibniz]

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]