Yet those who find the patterns of French politics themselves fascinating, if only as an instance of a kind of parallel evolution producing an ecology that is so like ours, yet so unlike it must be struck by how ably Macron has managed his own problems, not least in comparison with the new American President.
From the former point of view one thinks of the subject term as designating a substance, typically grasped as an instance of a kind, in which properties, designated by predicate terms, inhere.
Harrods has since outgrown its roots and is now legendary for its variety -- stocking 350 types of cheese, for instance -- and for one-of-a kind products like a child's two-seater, gas-powered Hummer for £17,995.
'Performative' is another technical term, and as used here it refers in the first instance to a kind of sentence.
"These transactions were not isolated, one-of-a-kind instances of violations of the statutes," Judge Harmon wrote, "but deliberate, repeated actions with shared characteristics that were part of an alleged common scheme through which defendants all profited handsomely".
The idea is that we can recognize instances of a kind on the basis of the superficial appearances of things of the kind, while remaining ignorant of their essential nature.
The anti-descriptivist arguments regard the observable properties of instances of a kind C as nomic consequences of the essence of C. If the laws of nature are metaphysically necessary then D will be a necessary property of instances of C also.
But then it seems to follow from the "modal transitivity" of identity (i.e., the principle: ∀x□∀y y=x → □∀z(x=z → y=z))) that if a member of a natural kind is literally identical with a C, then it is possible that an instance of a given kind could have been an instance of a very different kind.
He talks, for instance, with a kind of staccato eloquence about causes close to his heart.
Then we design an algorithm which decides weak bisimilarity between processes of one-counter automata and finite-state processes in time which is polynomial for a large subclass of instances, giving a kind of characterization of all hard instances as a byproduct.
From these principles it follows that instances of a mental kind with different physical realizations are distinct kinds.
