Cladistics rests on the hallucination of a typological middle
The approach called cladistics in biological systematics rests on the hallucination of a typological middle – a true tree of life - in a world of variation that can only be consistently described with statistics. It’s the rejection of statistics itself, calling its proponents (like me) scornfully “probabilists”, in favor for its typological hallucination. Such hallucinatory “tree” can actually never be consistent, because it would require fusion of object with kind, and thus inconsistency itself. It would thus require inconsistency to be consistent, ie, contradiction to be not contradictory.
This fact does not, however, hinder cladists from being paid by tax money via governmental institutions. It’s like feeding a tapeworm in science instead of science.
Another contribution to understanding of conceptualization http://menvall.wordpress.com/
2013-02-24 18:48:07
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