Criteria of Being Natural Kind and Their Realation to the Essence

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Abstract

The problem of natural kind is considered to be a complicated
problem in philosophy as it is linked to the problem of essence on
the one hand and the problem of individuals on the other. While
nominalists refuse to accept universals in their ontology, realists
believe in natural kinds and endeavor to justify classification
of things by appealing to existence of natural kinds and their
essential properties. In the first part of this paper we briefly survey
two kinds of criteria for being a natural kind. In the second part
we will evaluated the proposed criteria. Finally we conclude by
the following six criteria: Reality and absoluteness, possessing
of full essence, hierarchy, changelessness, categorization and
contribution to identical theory.

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  • Receive Date: 29 November 2015
  • Revise Date: 15 May 2024
  • Accept Date: 31 December 2020

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