ORDINARY KINDS AND ONTOLOGICAL ANGST. REPLY TO DEMARTINI

Abstract

Abstract Thainá Demartini has criticized my view that ordinary natural kind terms refer to vague non-scientific kinds and defended the more traditional view that they refer to precise kinds discovered by science. In this note I reject Demartini’s worries as based on inadequate ontological scruples.

Keywords

• Numeral Kind Terms
• Reference
• Ontology