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    It is not the case that Boyd's HPC account is explicitly designed to accommodate within-kind variation while preserving the explanatory and inductive role of natural kinds.

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    • 1.HPC's reliance on context-dependent 'homeostatic mechanisms' makes kind-membership indeterminate; fuzzy categories undermine inductive reliability.
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    • 2.Boyd's framework preserves explanatory role by stipulation rather than justification—it assumes what needs explaining about natural kind stability.
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    • 3.Within-kind variation (phenotypic, genetic) often exceeds between-kind variation; HPC lacks principled criteria distinguishing genuine kinds from arbitrary groupings.
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    • 1.Natural kinds require accounting for internal variation; Boyd's HPC framework does this while maintaining kind-unity through homeostatic property clusters.
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    • 2.Inductive generalization across biological taxa succeeds empirically only if kinds tolerate member variation; HPC explains why this works.
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    • 3.Alternative accounts (essentialism, strict definitions) fail to accommodate observed diversity within species while preserving their explanatory power.
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