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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'Specimen inventorum' and 'Darwinian Metaphysics: Species and Essentialism'

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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence
The cause of a change is not the real influence, but whatever gives a reason for the change [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species
The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt]
Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt]
Virtually all modern views of speciation rest on relational rather than intrinsic features [Okasha]