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Wulf
at Tue Oct 26 03:25:02 2004 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Wulf ]
Hi CKing,
6. ideology. A proposal based on ideology is most likely accepted by those who share the same ideology and rejected by those who have a different ideology. For example, taxonomists who split a species because of his/her subscription to the evolutionary species concept will generally find acceptance among adherents to the same concept but rejection by those who subscribe to a different species concept.
That's exactly the point!
Ideologies always seem to ignore facts and knowledge. Things that were right once (and perhaps still are) are simply ignored or being argued.
Species concepts are not more than tools that may help to provide someone's findings. One concept perhaps does better than others, but does that mean that all others are wrong? It sometimes look like that.
7. fashion. A proposal to split taxa, for example, on the basis of phenetic differences is much more likely to be acceptable to most biologists when phenetics was fashionable, as it was during the 1970's. A phenetic classification is much less likely to be accepted today, since cladistics is fashionable.
Same here! Are phenetic characters nowadays inevident or do "modern" taxonomists only accept finding based on what they call "state of the art" methods?
Cheers,
Wulf
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