The phrase "a kind rather" is not correct in standard written English.
It is likely intended to express a comparison or a type of something, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "He is a kind rather than a harsh leader."
Alternatives: "a type of" or "a sort of".
Gene skeptics claim that there is no coherence to the way gene is used at the molecular level and that this term does not designate a natural kind; rather, gene is allegedly used to pick out many different kinds of units in DNA.
According to this view, homosexuality is a specific, natural kind rather than a cultural or historical product.
So, a mental kind is not essentially realized by a certain neurophysiological kind; rather it plays the same functional role independently of what underlying kind is realizing it.
A narrow division as between cousins, surely, but a discontinuity of kind rather than degree, just as surely not.
The council concluded that the issues raised are of a "philosophy-of-science kind rather than of a research-ethical kind".
But KI's ethics council dismissed a complaint by Delaere last year, arguing that his issues were of a "philosophy-of-science kind rather than of a research-ethical kind".
The institute's ethics council came to the conclusion "that the issues raised are of a 'philosophy-of-science kind rather than of a research-ethical kind,' " Stokstad wrote.
The result is a one-of-a-kind image rather than a negative for reproducing photographs.
"Here's another inventing method," he said, after looking over the hairbrushes and failing to detect why a person would buy one kind rather than another.
I used to say to Iris, 'You know, she has such a kind face, rather like yours.' She did have a nice face".
