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When quine used taxanomic species as the model for a “natural kind”, I knew that “natural kinds” were not a natural kind. If natural kinds were “aspirations”, is “The Tree” a failed aspiration? Can scorpions sting themselves? N Nick Thompson <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2021 8:27 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Morphogenisis This is sort of fun https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/, just in case you thought the categories of "tree" and "wood" had any coherent biological or evolutionary meaning. -- rec --
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