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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'The Quest for Certainty' and 'works'

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6 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

7334	Anti-realism needs an intuitionist logic with no law of excluded middle [Dummett, by Miller,A]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

3303	For anti-realists there are no natural distinctions between objects [Dummett, by Benardete,JA]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

21516

We want certainty in order achieve secure results for action [Dewey]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds

17371

Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

17373

Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt]

17372

The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt]