Can the world help us in fixing the reference of natural kind terms?

Journal for General Philosophy of Science

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-70

  Douven, Igor ^a   Van Brakel, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Natural kind terms; Putnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649084662     PISSN: 09254560     EISSN: 15728587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008201511451     Document Type: Article

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