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OntologyIntermediate17 minPlanned

Natural Kinds

Whether the divisions we sort things into are found or made, and what a kind would have to be to be found

Planned, not yet written

This rung already has its place in the Ontology ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will definenatural kindhomeostatic property clusterpromiscuous realismconventionalism about kinds
Assumespropertyuniversalcategory of beingsortalessence

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