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Research, Experimentation, Analysis. It's a simple rhythm, but it's amazing how often someone will forget one of the beats & waste time instead of making progress on solving the problem.
Research, Experimentation, Analysis. It's a simple rhythm, but it's amazing how often someone will forget one of the beats & waste time instead of making progress on solving the problem.







![186. Natural Kinds | THUNK
How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? Philosophers: Well...it depends.
- Links for the Curious-
THUNK Discord - https://discord.gg/xGW7bmc
Natural Kinds (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-kinds/
Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds - https://philpapers.org/archive/MAGSEA.pdf
Natural Kinds | Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci [Sophia] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE9QQ1uk01Q
The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories, by Scott Alexander - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/
THUNK 134. The Problem of Universals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE4mXY42OBM 186. Natural Kinds | THUNK](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bWj15Utv3os/mqdefault.jpg)


