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The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds.
Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been subjecting Kripke's views about the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Series: | Routledge Studies in Metaphysics, v. 1.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |