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Origin of Domestic Varieties from one or more Species.

On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

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Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species.

On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

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ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.

On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

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Similarly, on this account, "tiger" might be used with the same meaning in different possible contexts to apply to members of different animal species (and perhaps to things other than animals).

On Considering a Possible World as Actual, Robert Stalnaker

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P1 may be, say, a certain problem concerning the survival of a species, such as the problem of reproduction, of producing offspring.

According to Darwin, this survival problem has found a good solution if the species survives; any other tentative solution will be eliminated by the disappearance of both the solution and the species.

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On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin

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Chemists who believed in these differential attractions between the various chemical species set up previously unimagined experiments and searched for new sorts of reactions.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn

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Though this can only be decided by comparison with other members of the species, and thus exposes us to the need of comparison which we thought an objection to Professor Lloyd Morgan's definition.

The Analysis of Mind, Bertrand Russell

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He relates how hunters attract stags by imitating the sounds of other members of their species, male or female, but find that the older a stag becomes the more difficult it is to deceive him, and the more accurate the imitation has to be. The literature of instinct is vast, and illustrations might be multiplied indefinitely.

The Analysis of Mind, Bertrand Russell

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