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    It is not the case that Sober and Wilson's homeostatic property cluster account of natural kinds supports co-classification when traits share stable functional profiles, regardless of mechanistic divergence.

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    • 1.Shared functional profiles without shared mechanisms risk grouping analogs rather than homologs, obscuring evolutionary and causal structure.
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    • 2.Homeostatic stability itself requires mechanistic explanation; ignoring mechanism leaves the question why properties remain stable unanswered.
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    • 3.Co-classification by function alone may conflate distinct kinds with different causal powers, leading to failed inductions across diverse systems.
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    • 1.Homeostatic clusters capture real causal patterns: organisms grouped by functional stability exhibit coordinated properties even across diverse mechanisms.
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    • 2.Mechanistic divergence is scientifically unproblematic if stable functional profiles enable reliable prediction and unified explanatory principles.
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    • 3.Natural kind classification should track what matters for scientific inference and practice, not underlying mechanism alone.
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