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Natural kinds no longer are what they never were

Muhammad Ali Khalidi: Natural categories and human kinds: Classification in the natural and social sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xvi+250pp, £55.00 HB

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Thanks to Muhammad Ali Khalidi for clarifying some aspects of his account of natural kinds to me.

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  1. Institute of Philosophy, Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science (ZEWW), Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Im Moore 21, 30167, Hannover, Germany

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Reydon, T.A.C. Natural kinds no longer are what they never were. Metascience 24, 259–264 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9930-7

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