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Ordinary kinds and ontological angst. Reply to Demartini
Manuscrito 43 (4):215-220 (2020)
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Thainá Demartini has criticized my view that ordinary natural kind terms refer to vague non-scientific kinds and defended the more traditional view that they refer to precise kinds discovered by science. In this note I reject Demartini’s worries as based on inadequate ontological scruples.Author's Profile
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