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    Being mammalian is necessarily a necessary condition for being a tiger, but not a sufficient condition for being a tiger.

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    • 1.If we discovered animals with the appearance of tigers but which turned out to be reptiles, we would deny that such creatures are tigers.
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    • 2.If a property must be present for a thing to belong to a natural kind, that property is a necessary condition for membership in that kind.
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    • 3.The necessity of a condition does not entail its sufficiency.
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    • 1.Kripke's essentialist framework grounds natural kind membership in underlying microstructure (e.g., DNA), not in higher-level biological classifications like 'mammalian'.
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    • 2.If mammality itself supervenes on genetic-developmental facts, then 'being mammalian' is a derived descriptor, not a primitive necessary condition for tiger-kind membership.
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    • 3.The true necessary conditions for being a tiger are facts about genetic lineage and reproductive community, which may in principle be instantiated in a non-mammalian substrate under radical biological revision.
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    • 1.Dupré's promiscuous realism holds that natural kind membership is interest-relative and cross-cuts biological taxonomy, so no single classificatory level yields strict modal necessities.
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    • 2.If 'tiger' can be legitimately individuated by ecological role, morphology, or genomic criteria depending on context, then 'being mammalian' carries no context-independent modal status as a necessary condition.
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    For example, in his discussion of gold, Kripke argues that something that is superficially like gold in appearance but lacks the property of having atomic number 79, would not be gold. This establishes that, of necessity, having atomic number 79 is necessary for being gold, but does not show that possession of this property is sufficient for being gold. Similarly, argues Kripke, if we were to discover a population of animals with the appearance of tigers but which turn out to be reptiles, we wou
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