Cats are not necessarily animals
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Abstract Some plausibly necessary a posteriori theoretical claims include ‘water is H 2 O’, ‘gold the element with atomic number 79’, and ‘cats are animals’. In this paper I challenge necessity of third claim. argue that there possible worlds in which cats exist, but not animals. Under any species concepts currently accepted biology, organisms do belong essentially to their species. This equally true ancestors. phylogenetic systematics, monophyletic clades such as animal kingdom composed an ancestral stem all its descendants. If had existed, neither would clade. Thus it could have been case actually might existed yet
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Erkenntnis
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0165-0106', '1572-8420']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-022-00588-w