One initially plausible objection to my SPC account of natural kinds concerns the specific notion of stability: doesn't this account imply that there can be no natural kinds of unstable elements? For instance, am I committed to the thesis that Uranium-238 is not a natural kind? Surely this would be a good reason for rejecting my account. Do me a favor and construct a response on my behalf.
If you cannot see that this objection has a good response, try to develop it in the most forceful way you can and explain why you do not believe that a response is possible.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
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