Sentence examples for real kinds from inspiring English sources

Apparently, real kinds include only members with some positive feature in common, while other parts allow members sharing only a negative feature.

We tend to assume that science is often successful in revealing these kinds; it is a corollary of scientific realism that when all goes well the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature.

It is arguable that Plato was not given to this semantic one-over-many reasoning, allowing us to interpret him instead to be claiming that there are names or concepts only where there are real kinds.

John Stuart Mill puts articulates the contrast thus: "In so far as a natural classification is grounded on real kinds, its groups are certainly not conventional; it is perfectly true that they do not depend upon an arbitrary choice of the naturalist" (Mill 1884, bk. IV, ch. II).

Locke's 'particular substances' are kinds which are individuated conventionally, and so are not real substantial kinds, by Aristotelian standards.

He came off real kind.

The real kind was already there.

The real kind, not instant.

It was a real kind of epiphany".

"There was a real kind of team spirit between everyone.

Making the real kind, the brother kind, is much harder now".