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How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? Philosophers: "Well...it depends."

- Links for the Curious-

THUNK Discord - discord.gg/xGW7bmc

Natural Kinds (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-kinds/

Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds - philpapers.org/archive/MAGSEA.pdf

Natural Kinds | Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci [Sophia] - youtube.com/watch?v=tE9QQ1uk01Q

The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories, by Scott Alexander - slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories

THUNK 134. The Problem of Universals - youtube.com/watch?v=WE4mXY42OBM