Message 2005-12-0068: Re: PhyloCode: Re: PhyloCode Taxonomic Classifications

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 05:27:34 +0000

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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
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