The core of cladistics
Cladistics is the ultimate conceptual confusion, that is, confusion of “pattern” with “process” (or of “the specific” with “the generic”).
The fundamental problem with this confusion is that there isn’t any specific such confusion that isn’t non-contradictory, that is, that all such confusions are contradictory, actually paradoxically contradictory as Betrand Russell showed in 1901 (see Russell’s paradox).
The entrance to this confusion is a belief in words themselves. We enter it when we start believing that our talk about reality is more true than reality itself (ie, facts) is. And, since words fundamentally are orthogonal, the confusion leads us into an infinite recursion of a paradoxically contradictory total conceptual confusion, which cladistics calls “a search for the tree of life”. This infinite recursion is thus for cladistics “a search”. This “search” does cladistics practically apply by optimization of all data one can possibly find on its paradoxically contradictory model, thus always resulting in paradoxical contradiction.
Cladistics is thus not science, but instead the sect that applies the ultimate conceptual confusion (ie, searches for the paradox of conceptualization).
Another contribution to understanding of conceptualization http://menvall.wordpress.com/
2012-12-11 05:40:31
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