 Here Dupré can be understood as following the general intuition that if some kind K seems too diverse to characterize, it should be split into diverse sub-kinds, with each of those characterized. In early philosophical work (J. Wilson 1999, 2000) also drew on this intuition, where K = biological individual, moving beyond that broad concept to characterize genetic, functional, developmental, and evolutionary individuals. Famously, the botanist John Harper invoked pluralism, where K = plant, by introducing the more particular kinds ramet and genet to replace talk of individuals. A ramet is what might be readily identified as an individual plant; a genet is a collection of ramets that propagate, as is often the case, through the clonal growth of a particular ramet (Harper 1977). How many plants there are, in many cases, depends on whether ramets or genets are meant. For example, while each of the trees in an aspen grove that forms clonally is a ramet, collectively they typically form a single genet. A pluralist might prefer a description cast in terms of ramets and genets over any attempt to answer the question of how many plants or individuals, per se, there are in this case. 