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In Chapter 3, I distinguished between several distinct questions that one could ask about species:
The Taxon Question: What is it for an organism to be of a particular taxon?
The Category Question: What is it for some organisms to be a species?
The Metaphysical Question: What sorts of things are species? (Into what metaphysical category do they fit?)
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Slater, M.H. (2013). Individualism. In: Are Species Real?. New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230393233_4
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