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Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds : From Planets to Mallards, Hardback Book

Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds : From Planets to Mallards Hardback

by P. Magnus

Part of the New Directions in the Philosophy of Science series

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Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world and are indispensable for successful science in some domain; in short, they are natural kinds.

This book gives a general account of what it is to be a natural kind and puts the account to work illuminating numerous specific examples.

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Format:Hardback
Pages:210 pages, XII, 210 p.
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date:15/10/2012
Category:
- Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
- Philosophy of science
ISBN:9780230369177

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Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date:15/10/2012
Category:
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- Philosophy of science
ISBN:9780230369177

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