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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 05:27:34 +0000
From: [unknown]
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Re: PhyloCode: Re: PhyloCode Taxonomic Classifications
If some reject species and PhyloCode as you say can accommodate them = doesn't that mean that the PhyloCode camp has people rejecting any sp= ecies classifications that could ever be adopted for PhyloCode and so= the PhyloCode camp is divided into Speciests and NonSpeciests? Yisrael Asper yisraelasper@comcast.net Pittsburgh PA If it ain't broke, I can't fix it. > > > If PhyloCode wins it will take over the vocabulary of Evolution= . > >=20 > > Sorry, I don't understand that either. ~:-) > In dictionaries you have listed specialized uses for words like the= word work in=20 > ordinary life and the word work in physics. Physics doesn't care ho= w much=20 > someone sweats to declare something work. So if PhyloCode wins it w= ill be used=20 > for Evolution irrespective of ordinary usage like with dinosaurs an= d birds.=20 > > (However, the PhyloCode makes it possible not to use species if y= ou think=20 > > they don't exist. Some people think so.) > My goodness! Welcome to the 21st. century! > Yisrael Asper > yisraelasper@comcast.net > Pittsburgh PA >=20 >=20 > > > If PhyloCode wins it will take over the vocabulary of Evolution= . > >=20 > > Sorry, I don't understand that either. ~:-) > >=20 > > > So with Evolution species is just a construct of language and n= ot > > > something that really exists in nature? > >=20 > > Maybe -- but for the PhyloCode this doesn't matter. The PhyloCode= is only=20 > > for naming clades. The problem of how to name species will be tac= kled=20 > > later, in a separate document. > >=20 > > (However, the PhyloCode makes it possible not to use species if y= ou think=20 > > they don't exist. Some people think so.) > >=20 > > --=20 > > 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail > > +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f=FCr Mail, Message, More +++