"Natural kind" is an intellectual grouping, or categorizing of things, in a manner that is reflective of the actual world and not just human interests...

computer science Natural kind, in philosophy Created kind, often abbreviated to kinds, a creationist category of life forms In kind, for non-monetary...

classifying entities. Natural and social kinds are often understood as special types of universals. Entities belonging to the same natural kind share certain...

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question to be a structure of natural kinds, i.e., of homeostatically clustered properties. Such natural kinds provide a natural ground for inductive inference...

definition of a natural kind, while "surely it is not what anyone means by a kind". While neither of the notions of similarity and kind can be defined...

explanation is that "blue" is a natural kind; a privileged predicate we can use for induction, while "grue" is not a natural kind and using induction with it...

outside of conduct' a "natural kind," and presume it to have eternal existence knowable in itself without being experienced. Natural kinds are intrinsic valuations...

objectively existing entities which realist philosophers call universals or natural kinds. Smith's main argument - with which many followers of the concept theory...

two kinds of substance: matter and mind. According to this system, everything that is "matter" is deterministic and natural—and so belongs to natural philosophy—and...