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Scientific Enquiry and Natural KindsIntroduction

Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds: Introduction [In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates is concerned with how things are grouped together and how they are divided. He makes an analogy with carving up an animal. Just as cuts of meat should be carved at the joints rather than broken across bones, our account of the world should carve nature at its joints. So we inherit this grisly metaphor for what scientific enquiry does when it aims to discover the real divisions in nature: When science finds the natural kinds, its concepts are the chops and steaks of the world.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
ISBN
978-1-349-35035-3
Pages
1 –3
DOI
10.1057/9781137271259_1
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Abstract

[In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates is concerned with how things are grouped together and how they are divided. He makes an analogy with carving up an animal. Just as cuts of meat should be carved at the joints rather than broken across bones, our account of the world should carve nature at its joints. So we inherit this grisly metaphor for what scientific enquiry does when it aims to discover the real divisions in nature: When science finds the natural kinds, its concepts are the chops and steaks of the world.]

Published: Oct 27, 2015

Keywords: Natural Kind; Natural Kind Term; Successful Science; Homeostatic Property Cluster; Real Division

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