Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'On the Moral and Legal State of Abortion' and 'fragments/reports'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons

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Persons must be conscious, reasoning, motivated, communicative, self-aware [Warren, by Tuckness/Wolf]

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

17372

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

17373

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