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    Challenges→Natural kinds as a concept should be eliminated altogether

    An argument that no single concept fits all practices conflates the failure of monism with the failure of the broader ontological category itself.

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    • 1.Category-level failure requires showing the category itself lacks coherence, not merely that one specific account within it fails.
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    • 2.Monism's collapse doesn't eliminate pluralistic approaches that preserve the category's explanatory utility across diverse cases.
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    • 3.Conflating these failures commits a logical error: rejecting all members of a set based on one failed unifying principle.
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    • 1.If no single concept unites a category's members, that absence itself may demonstrate the category was never genuinely unified.
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    • 2.Preserving an incoherent category through pluralism merely relabels the problem rather than solving it ontologically.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'monism fails' and 'category fails' collapses when the category's only justification was monistic unity.
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