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Back to Class: A Note on the Ontology of Species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan*
Affiliation:
The Hastings Center and Columbia University Medical School
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 130 - 140
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Copyright © 1981 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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I would like to thank Walter Bock, Ernst Mayr, William Bechtel and David Hull for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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