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Ep. 340: Brian Ellis on the Implications of Essentialism (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Exploring the Nature of Categorizations and Species in Hierarchy

Exploring the transformation of categorizations as hierarchy and sophistication rise, from natural kinds to blurred boundaries, such as gene-identical subspecies and constructed distinctions like dog and cat, all rooted in natural kind processes.

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