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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'What is a Leading Principle?' and 'The Secret Connexion'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

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A 'belief' is a habit which determines how our imagination and actions proceed [Peirce]

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]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction

8338	A phenomenalist about objects has to be a regularity theorist about causation [Strawson,G]

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]