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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'Hymn to Perfect Wisdom' and 'Leibniz'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

7911	Theory vanishes when one has obtained wisdom [Rahulabhadra]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

19378

Early modern possibility is what occurs sometime; for Leibniz, it is what is not contradictory [Arthur,R]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 4. Occasionalism

19380

Occasionalism contradicts the Eucharist, which needs genuine changes of substance [Arthur,R]

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]