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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'On 'Physics'' and 'works'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

3534	To be is to have causal powers [Alexander,S]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16695

Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times [Oresme]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 6. Epiphenomenalism

3398	Epiphenomenalism makes the mind totally pointless [Alexander,S]

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]