Nature's joints: A realistic defence of natural properties

Ratio 25 (4):387-404 (2012)
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This paper attacks two contrary views. One denies that nature has joints, taking the properties we call natural to be merely artefacts of our theories. The other accepts real natural properties but takes their naturalness to come by degrees. I argue that both are wrong: natural properties are real, and their naturalness no more comes by degrees than does the naturalness of the things that have them.1

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Hugh Mellor
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