Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Nietzsche and Philosophy' and 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming

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There is no being beyond becoming [Deleuze]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

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]