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Carving nature at its joints: natural kinds in metaphysics and science
Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press (2011)
Abstract
Are there natural kinds of things around which our theories cut? The essays in this volume offer reflections by a distinguished group of philosophers on a series of intertwined issues in the metaphysics and epistemology of classification.Author Profiles
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Q175.32.N38.C37 2011
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9780262015936 9780262516266 0262516268
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