The concept of a kind
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Michael J. Loux
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Article
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1976
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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The concept of a kind plays a prominent role in the metaphysics associated with the Aristoteliau tradition; and at an intuitive level, what Aristotelians have meant by a kind is clear enough. Kinds are universals like man, animal, number, and color which provide us with a system for classifying obje