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Current edition: v1 · 2026-08-24 · prime abstraction

Corrections

Checking this entry found 2 errors, now corrected: against its sources, or where it contradicted itself or its arithmetic did not hold. Each is listed here so a reader can see what changed. How references were checked.

• 2026-06-21 · Citation corrected. Cited Sober's The Nature of Selection, dated 1980 though published in 1984, for species anti-essentialism; the reference is now Sober's 1980 article 'Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism'.
• 2026-06-21 · Citation corrected. Titled the Aristotle reference 'Categories and Prior Analytics' and described syllogistic logic; the reference is now the Categories alone, described accordingly.

Editions

Version	Date	Change	What changed
v1	2026-08-24	First published edition.	first published edition

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