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ORDINARY KINDS AND ONTOLOGICAL ANGST. REPLY TO DEMARTINI1 1 Support from the research project no. PIDPID-107667GB-I00 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation is gratefully acknowledged.

Abstract

Thainá Demartini has criticized my view that ordinary natural kind terms refer to vague non-scientific kinds and defended the more traditional view that they refer to precise kinds discovered by science. In this note I reject Demartini’s worries as based on inadequate ontological scruples.

Keywords:
Numeral Kind Terms; Reference; Ontology

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