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Discussion: Axiomatics and Individuality: A Reply to Williams' “Species are Individuals”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2022
Abstract
In her “Species Are Individuals” (1985), Mary Williams offers informal arguments and a sketched proof which allegedly show that species are individuals with respect to evolutionary theory. In this paper, I suggest that her informal arguments are insufficient for showing that clans are not sets and that species are individuals. I also argue that her sketched proof depends on three questionable assumptions.
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- Copyright © 1988 by the Philosophy of Science Association
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The author wishes to thank Elliott Sober for his help and encouragement, and Mary B. Williams for her comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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