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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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