>From the introduction to "Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kinds" (1977), edited by Stephen P. Schwartz:
"Putnam extends the theory to natural kind terms. His view is that we 'baptise' what we take to be good examples or paradigms of some substance such as water and then use 'water' to refer to whatever has the same nature as the paradigms. When we introduce the term it is not necessary to know the nature of the stuff we are naming. We hope that such knowledge will come with empirical scientific investigations." The Raku Study Group Januray 31, 2021 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87537987215?pwd=TEtCaGlZaHhwbUl3eDNXcWZORzExQT09 Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/276031007/
