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    Millikan's teleosemantic account grounds natural kind mem... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Structure does not play a fundamental individuating role in protein classification.

    Millikan's teleosemantic account grounds natural kind membership in selected-for causal roles, privileging function over physical substrate in biological taxonomy.

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    • 1.Organisms with identical functions but different substrates (e.g., different hemoglobin molecules) belong to same biological kind.
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    • 2.Evolution selects for functional roles, not physical properties, making function the fundamental basis of natural kind membership.
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    • 3.Teleosemantic accounts explain why malfunctioning hearts and functional mechanical pumps differ in kind despite structural similarity.
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    • 1.Evolutionary function is retrospective and observer-dependent, making it unstable ground for objective natural kind classifications.
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    • 2.Many organisms with identical selected-for functions are not classified as same natural kind, suggesting function underdetermines taxonomy.
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    • 3.Physical substrate determines developmental constraints, inheritance patterns, and causal powers that matter for biological classification.
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