On the necessity of natural kinds

In Peter J. Riggs (ed.), Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 1-10 (1996)
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Natural kinds are central to most might decide to restrict systematisation just to scientific reasoning about the world. For that..

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