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The task of this essay is to investigate the possibility of describing biological individuals with logical means. This approach is not interested in matters of time (for example, in evolution); but rather in the logical shape of biological objects. So it is radically different from natural science. In his later years, Wittgenstein made similar investigations in psychology and mathematics.1 Unfortunately, he found no time to specifically develop a philosophy (logic) of biology. This is what we are going to advance here.
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Milkov, N. (2002). The Logical Form of Biological Objects. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Creative Matrix of the Origins. Analecta Husserliana, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0538-8_2
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