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    It is not the case that Natural kinds as a concept should be eliminated altogether

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    • 1.Scientific explanations of inductive projectibility and causal laws systematically depend on kind membership, as Quine and Boyd independently argued.
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    • 2.Eliminating natural kinds removes the theoretical basis for distinguishing lawlike generalizations from accidental regularities.
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    • 3.A concept indispensable to the normative structure of scientific inference cannot be eliminated without replacing its explanatory function.
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    • 1.The diversity of classification practices across sciences entails pluralism about natural kinds, not eliminativism, as Dupré's promiscuous realism demonstrates.
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    • 2.An argument that no single concept fits all practices conflates the failure of monism with the failure of the broader ontological category itself.
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    • 1.Classification in the special sciences reveals diverse practices
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    • 2.No single concept of natural kind fits all classification practices
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