Sentence examples for scientific kinds from inspiring English sources

Thus (structure-independent) mental kinds are not causal kinds, and hence are disqualified as proper scientific kinds.

Multiple realizability yields the failure of structure-independent mental kinds to meet the standards of scientific kinds.

Yet the Analytics provides no systematic discussion about whether there are general criteria for identifying these basic scientific kinds.

The claim that the hierarchy requirement is too stringent for scientific kinds has been defended by Khalidi (1998) and Tobin (2010b).

Scientific kinds are individuated by their causal powers, and the causal powers of each instance of some realized kind are identical to those of its realizer.

Therefore, no general conclusion may be drawn about the natural world and its kinds, from the fact that scientists study scientific kinds in a highly idealized and controlled setting.

A: This is not a scientific kind of question.

Well that's a press release, not a scientific kind of statement.

The decision carried with it the abandonment of all determinisms both the scientific kind that his training had established for him and that seems to have had some relation to his neurosis and the theological, metaphysical kind that he later opposed in the notion of "the block universe".

For Popper, the unity that identifies the scientific kind is methodological: the falsifiability of hypotheses.

Shared passions--specifically the scientific kind--bring together people from different backgrounds and cultures and many parts of the world.