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    It is not the case that Attempts to unify kind-talk across disciplines systematically distort the explanatory and predictive roles kinds play within each domain's specific inferential practices.

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    • 1.Scientific progress historically depends on finding common principles underlying apparent diversity—unified taxonomy enabled evolutionary biology's explanatory power.
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    • 2.If kinds truly serve discipline-specific roles only, interdisciplinary prediction becomes impossible; yet neurobiology successfully predicts psychology using unified frameworks.
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    • 3.The claim conflates differences in *criteria for kind-membership* with differences in whether *kinds themselves play unified explanatory roles* across domains.
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    • 1.Biological species rely on reproductive isolation; physical elements on atomic structure. Unified 'kind' frameworks ignore these domain-specific criteria.
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    • 2.Psychology's functional kinds (beliefs, desires) serve different inferential roles than chemistry's compositional kinds; forcing uniformity obscures this.
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    • 3.Cross-disciplinary unification often privileges one domain's ontology, rendering other domains' explanatory practices theoretically invisible or marginal.
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