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“Tiger is a natural kind” and “Tiger is a historical particular” are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former.

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The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some kind of “in virtue of” relation), and that fitness and other biological properties are not identical with physical properties.

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Kind Quotes by Elliott Sober

“Tiger is a natural kind” and “Tiger is a historical particular” are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former.

The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some kind of “in virtue of” relation), and that fitness and other biological properties are not identical with physical properties.

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