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    Species taxa can count as natural kinds even under a relaxed conception of natural kinds

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    • 1.The traditional concept of natural kinds requires instantiation of intrinsic, necessary, sufficient, and spatiotemporally unrestricted properties
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    • 2.A relaxed concept of natural kinds drops those strict requirements while still supporting causal explanations
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    • 3.Under such a relaxed concept, taxonomic and explanatory criteria can be reunited
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    • 1.Species lack stable homeostatic property clusters because evolutionary pressures continuously dissolve and reconstitute trait correlations across populations.
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    • 2.A kind concept that cannot ground stable inductive projections fails the core epistemological function natural kinds are invoked to perform.
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    • 3.Therefore, 'relaxing' natural kind criteria to accommodate species sacrifices the very explanatory utility the relaxed conception claims to preserve.
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    • 1.Species are spatiotemporally restricted lineages individuated by genealogical descent, making them historical particulars rather than repeatable types.
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    • 2.Ereshefsky and Matthen argue that if species are individuals in Ghiselin's sense, predicating kind-membership of organisms is a category error.
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    • 3.Reuniting taxonomic and explanatory criteria under a relaxed kind concept conceals this ontological equivocation rather than resolving it.
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    The kinds of reasons that may be advanced could either be internal to, or independent of the biological sciences. If the former, then various theoretical options may seem viable. The first grounds in the claim that, although species are not natural kinds and are thus unsuited to figuring in laws of nature (Hull 1987: 171), they do support descriptions with a significant degree of generality, some of which may be important (Hull 1984: 19). A theory of human nature developed on this basis should e
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