This paper establishes through historical and contemporary analysis the relationship between dogs and social order and its import for understanding the use of dogs as mechanisms of social control. Key here are those relationships that have shaped dogs into devices of control that force conformity through threat, fear, and violence. It concludes that for centuries dogs have gone relatively unnoticed as a timely and efficient accessory to the implementation and maintenance of social control policies and practices. Johnathan Schmolt Locke versus Kornblith on Natural Kinds John Locke and Hilary Kornblith provide opposing views on how people come to understand kinds. Locke is a conventionalist who believes that there are no kinds in nature.
People observe the qualities of individual substances in nature.
Simple ideas represent those qualities in our mind. Each person takes their simple ideas and organizes them into nominal essences. These nominal essences are the substance kinds that are used to categorize individual objects. Kornblith is a realist who says that there are natural kinds in the world. These natural kinds are homeostatic property clusters in nature.