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The taxonomic answer refers to a higher order category 'They are felines and felines are carnivores'. The substantive answer refers to the evolutionary biology by which cats are constituted as powerful particulars in the farmyard: 'They have evolved in such and such an environment and their DNA predisposes them to acquire hunting behaviour'. Roy Bhaskar: I don't like Rom's dichotomy of the taxonomic and the explanatory. I think one of the great strengths of a realist philosophy of science is that ultimately it looked for real essences and real definitions.
The most illuminating authority on the role of the social milieu in the development of cognitive, manipulative and moral capacities is Vygotsky (1962). According to Vygotsky skilled people exercise their capacities in the practices through which they generate social worlds. But how is the next generation to acquire these skills, and to have minds of a certain character or structure? It does not come from the social world that has been generated by the exercise of those skills. It comes from psychological symbiosis between the neonate and the family in which that child is growing up.
What preempts this particular issue is where concepts or theories are already being used in the same way or in a similar fashion in critical realism and elsewhere. A classic example of a ubiquitous concept is the idea of relations. It is not the purpose, here, however, to trace the development and use of the idea of relations other than to point out its utility in recent variants of Marxism and in critical realism. Nevertheless, it should be noted that it is a major precept of Hegelian philosophy that nothing in isolation is real and that each thing is relationally identical with the whole.