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    The true necessary conditions for being a tiger are facts... — Carmelics
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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.

    The true necessary conditions for being a tiger are facts about genetic lineage and reproductive community, which may in principle be instantiated in a non-mammalian substrate under radical biological revision.

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    Necessary conditions(as used in logic and philosophy)
    Something that must be present for something else to happen—like how oxygen is a necessary condition for fire to exist.
    Substrate(as the underlying physical foundation being discussed)
    The physical stuff or material that something is made of or runs on; in this case, the brain as the physical basis for mental states.
    genetic lineage(used to describe one way of defining what a tiger actually is)
    The family tree of an organism's genes—basically, where its genes came from through ancestors, going back generation after generation.
    instantiated(as used in metaphysics and logic)
    Made real or brought into existence as an actual example; like when a concept becomes a real thing you can observe.
    radical biological revision

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    A complete, fundamental change to how living things are biologically structured or organized—basically, rewriting the rules of what biology is.
    reproductive community(Hull 1986: 4)
    A complex network of mating and reproduction that organisms participate in, constituting the basis for species membership under relational accounts.

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