It takes more than all kinds to make a world

Carving Nature at Its Joints: Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 53-84

  Lange, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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