6 ideas
22102 | Arguing with opponents uncovers truths, and restrains falsehoods [Aquinas] |
17368 | Essentialism concerns the nature of a group, not its category [Devitt] |
17370 | Things that gradually change, like species, can still have essences [Devitt] |
21516 | We want certainty in order achieve secure results for action [Dewey] |
17369 | We name species as small to share properties, but large enough to yield generalisations [Devitt] |
17367 | Species are phenetic, biological, niche, or phylogenetic-cladistic [Devitt, by PG] |