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http://www.metaontology.pl/metaontology_populated.owl#abstract_2213
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| abstract of Biological Species: Natural Kinds, Individuals, or What? | en | rdfs:label |
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What are biological species? Aristotelians and Lockeans agree that they are natural kinds; but, evolutionary theory shows that neither traditional philosophical approach is truly adequate. Recently, Michael Ghiselin and David Hull have argued that species are individuals. This claim is shown to be against the spirit of much modern biology. It is concluded that species are natural kinds of a sort, and that any 'objectivity' they possess comes from their being at the focus of a consilience of inductions.
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