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The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds
Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
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...
Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge