The notion of multi-functional kind is introduced to explain how social scientists may be able to draw inferences across historically unrelated societies or cultures. Multi-functional kinds are neither eternal nor purely historical, support non-trivial inductive generalisations, and allow to overcome scepticism about the inductive potential of multiply realised (functional) properties. Two examples, from monetary economics and anthropology, provide support for a pluralistic ontology of the social world.

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社会类型：历史性和多功能性

引入多功能类型的概念是为了解释社会科学家如何能够在历史上不相关的社会或文化中得出推论。多功能类型既不是永恒的，也不是纯粹历史的，支持非平凡的归纳概括，并允许克服对多重实现（功能）属性的归纳潜力的怀疑。货币经济学和人类学的两个例子为社会世界的多元化本体论提供了支持。