Kinds that share historical properties are dubbed “historical kinds” or “etiological kinds,” and they have some distinctive features. I will try to characterize etiological kinds in general terms and briefly survey some previous philosophical discussions of these kinds. Then I will take a closer look at a few case studies involving different types of etiological kinds. Finally, I will try to understand the rationale for classifying on the basis of etiology, putting forward reasons for classifying phenomena on the basis of diachronic features, thereby making a provisional case for considering at least some etiological kinds to be natural kinds.

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病因种类

具有历史属性的种类被称为“历史种类”或“病因种类”，它们具有一些鲜明的特征。我将尝试概括地描述病因学类型，并简要回顾一下以前关于这些病因的哲学讨论。然后，我将仔细研究一些涉及不同病因类型的案例研究。最后，我将尝试理解根据病因进行分类的基本原理，提出根据历时特征对现象进行分类的原因，从而为至少将某些病因类型视为自然类型提供一个临时案例。