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The living individual and its kind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 mthompso+@pitt.edu
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Abstract

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The empirical advances the target article makes over Atran (1990) tend not so much to enrich our knowledge of the “folk taxonomic” hierarchy as to militate against the idea of one. Folk-biological domain-specific universals are to be found not in “taxonomic” kind-kind subordination relations, but in the relation of individual organisms to low ranking kinds and in the peculiarities of those kinds.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 591
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press