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

    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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    • 1.Supervenience means no difference in genetic-developmental facts without difference in mammality, establishing dependence rather than independence.
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    • 2.Properties that depend entirely on more fundamental physical facts are explanatorily derivative, not foundational to category membership.
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    • 3.If we could identify all genetic-developmental facts without reference to 'mammal,' the term describes what supervenes, not what's primitive.
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    • 1.Supervenience entails dependency but not necessarily 'derivative' status; even fundamental properties supervene on their own constituents.
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    • 2.Mammality defines a natural kind with explanatory power in biology independent of whether it supervenes on genetic-developmental features.
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    • 3.The claim conflates metaphysical derivation with epistemological explanation—we might need 'mammal' concepts even if facts supervene physically.
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