On classification of dichotomously branching processes – Linnean systematics vs cladistics
Linnean systematics (and thus also evolutionary taxonomy) is a consistent classification of dichotomously branching processes by keeping pattern (ie, species) and process (ie, genera) consistently apart.
Cladistics is a consistently inconsistent (ie, paradoxically contradictory)classification of dichotomously branching processes by axiomatically confusing pattern with process.
The problem with cladistic classification is that classification can’t mimic process (ie, pattern over time), because process isn’t pattern (ie, process in time), but instead orthogonal to it. Confusing pattern with process confuses the structural aspect of reality with the functional aspect of it, which is both paradoxically contradictory and falsified by facts. Pattern is not confused with process in reality, but, on the contrary, orthogonally distinct from it. This fact is actually the reason why reality doesn’t stop, ie, why history hasn’t ended. It means that cladistic classification in practice is an infinite recursion, ie, an infinite loop.
Another contribution to understanding of conceptualization http://menvall.wordpress.com/
2013-01-16 04:49:41
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