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    It is not the case that Toulmin's biological species analogy is not a genuine analogy to biological species

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    • 1.Toulmin's biological species analogy is based only on feature-similarity between scientific communities and biological species
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    • 2.Genuine biological species are defined by historical-causal continuity, not mere feature-similarity
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    • 1.Mayr's Biological Species Concept defines species by reproductive isolation and shared gene pools, not by functional or structural similarity.
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    • 2.Toulmin's 'intellectual disciplines' lack any equivalent to reproductive isolation—concepts migrate freely across disciplinary boundaries.
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    • 3.Without a mechanism analogous to reproductive isolation, Toulmin's units cannot exhibit the bounded variation that defines genuine biological species.
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    • 1.Kitcher's population-based account of scientific change shows that conceptual lineages require traceable descent with modification, not mere typological resemblance.
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    • 2.Toulmin identifies his 'intellectual species' by synchronic functional roles rather than diachronic genealogical descent, inverting the logic of cladistic classification.
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