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    If individualism about species is correct, kind membership cannot be necessarily intrinsic

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    • 1.On the individualist-compatible account, kind membership is defined as 'being a part of a species-individual'
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    • 2.'Being a part of y' is not an intrinsic property
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    • 3.Parts of the same entity do not necessarily share any intrinsic properties
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    Does individualism about species imply that species are not natural kinds? One might suspect as much, but perhaps the two views are compatible. LaPorte (2004), for example, believes that one can consistently hold both views. Where one theorist will see a species-as-kind and an organism-as-member of that kind, another theorist will see a species-as-individual and an organism-as-part of that kind. And so even allowing that individualism is correct, we can construct a kind: if S is a species-indivi
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