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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'works' and 'The Realm of Matter'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

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The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / b. Turing Machines

3193	Turing showed that logical rules can be specified computationally and mechanically [Turing, by Rey]

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]