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    It is not the case that Therefore, 'relaxing' natural kind criteria to accommodate species sacrifices the very explanatory utility the relaxed conception claims to preserve.

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    • 1.Biological explanations succeed despite species concept disagreements, suggesting relaxed criteria preserve explanatory utility.
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    • 2.No single natural kind criterion captures all biological phenomena; pluralism about species reflects nature's complexity, not conceptual failure.
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    • 3.Relaxing criteria enables accommodation of asexual, hybrid, and extinct organisms—expanding rather than sacrificing explanatory scope.
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    • 1.Natural kind criteria provide predictive power by identifying stable, causally-relevant properties across organisms.
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    • 2.Species concepts prioritizing reproductive isolation over essentialist traits blur the boundaries that enable scientific generalization.
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    • 3.Once we abandon strict criteria for accommodation, we lose the ability to distinguish genuine kinds from arbitrary classifications.
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