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Nick: > P.S. If the kind is still population-as-individual, it is not a general > solution to the intensional problem. Please say on list how you'd say > you want some xodium I'm not sure where you see the lack of a solution, and which bits of "I want some xodium" you are focusing on. In brief, I would say "I want xodium-Kind (= Mr Xodium)" or else say "I want that it be true that there is xodium such that co'e". Kind is population as something that neutralizes the individual/substance distinction. Intrinsically countable things will yield a Kind that is an individual and intrinsically uncountable things will yield a Kind that is a substance. (Those defaults would need to be overridable somehow, of course.) --And.