(Sorry, we're not talking about the meatball sub kind of saucy, Joey).
If K seems too diverse to characterize, split it into diverse sub-kinds and characterize each of those.
Having set off down the theoretical branch of knowledge in search for the statesman, the Stranger divides theoretical knowledge into two sub-kinds.
Moreover, by finding a cause shared by phenomena in different sub-kinds, we are able to colligate all the facts about these kinds into a more general causal law.
What Newton did, in effect, was to subsume these individual "event kinds" into a more general natural kind comprised of sub-kinds sharing a kind essence, namely being caused by an inverse-square attractive force.
Thus, if beak, feather, winged of a sort, two-legged of a sort, etc. are co-extensive, the biologist needs to perform the proper sort of division on all of these in order to grasp the various sub-kinds.
The other is to split the higher-level multiply realized kind into a variety of sub-kinds, one for each of its distinct lower level realizers, and then eliminate the original higher-level kind, at least for the purposes of further scientific investigation and development.
His lecture assumes the boy's point of view (that statecraft differs from other modes of herding because of the physical traits of the animals herded), advises him to divide kinds into sub-kinds with roughly equal extension, and then demonstrates in hilarious detail the results of that assumption.
I have this same problem with a few other brands of digital camcorders, particularly the cheaper, sub-$150 kinds.
He's being subbed for, kind of heroically, by Rob Shaffer of Dark Castle, the band opening for Yob this summer.
The previous owner had preserved and protected its abundant Old World charm — paneled walls and ceilings, wainscoting, crown molding, herringbone floors, beveled leaded-glass doors — while showing an appreciation for modern conveniences of the Sub-Zero kind.
