Words, Species, and Kinds
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چکیده
It has been widely argued that words are analogous to species such words, like species, natural kinds. In this paper, I consider the metaphysics of word-kinds. After arguing against an essentialist approach, argue word-kinds homeostatic property clusters, in line with dominant approach other biological and psychological
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Metaphysics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2515-8279']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/met.70