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Philosophy on the middle ground
11/09/22
Thinking about 'natural kinds' in the 19th-century has me reading obscure criticisms of Mill. In an 1859 review, James Martineau writes:
The great mass of Mr. Mill's labour has been devoted to what may be termed the middle ground of human thought, below the primary data which rea -
Chatter about 'natural kinds'
11/09/06
I have played around with Google's Ngram Viewer before. It's a tool which graphs the frequency of words or phrases across time.
Lately, I've been thinking about the origins of the phrase 'natural kind'. The phrase became a philosophical term of art in the mid-19th
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