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'Carving nature at its joints' is a phrase that derives from Plato, but is often used with the sense that science seeks to develop categories and discriminations which reflect those which 'really' exist in the world – a good scientific theory correctly carves nature at its joints (i.e., the terms and concepts reflect objective featues of the external world).
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