Download or read book Scientific Enquiry and Natural Kinds written by P. Magnus and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world and are indispensable for successful science in some domain; in short, they are natural kinds. This book gives a general account of what it is to be a natural kind and puts the account to work illuminating numerous specific examples.