Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'On the Essence of Human Freedom' and 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding'

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5 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / g. Will to power

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Ultimately, all being is willing. The nature of primal being is the same as the nature of willing [Schelling]

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]