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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'Logical Investigations' and 'Events and Reification'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology

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Phenomenology is the science of essences - necessary universal structures for art, representation etc. [Husserl, by Polt]

7614	Bracketing subtracts entailments about external reality from beliefs [Husserl, by Putnam]

6893	Phenomenology aims to describe experience directly, rather than by its origins or causes [Husserl, by Mautner]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence

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Husserl says we have intellectual intuitions (of categories), as well as of the senses [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]

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 / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

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Causal relata are individuated by coarse spacetime regions [Quine, by Schaffer,J]

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]