Combining Texts

All the ideas for '75: Is 'Live Unknown' a Wise Precept?', 'Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics' and 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism'

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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary

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Why can't we deduce secondary qualities from primary ones, if they cause them? [Buridan]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5959	Some philosophers say the soul is light [Plutarch]

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

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

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

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

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