Re: KT boundry event

John Harshman wrote:

UC wrote:
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>> John Harman wrote:
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>>> UC wrote:
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>>>>John Harman wrote:
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>>>>>UC wrote:

[Snip a lot of stuff irrelevant to my question]

The Linnaean nomenclature exists strictly for classification; it has no
other purpose.
That's quite wrong, but it also seems irrelevant to any point you may be
making.
What other purpose does it serve, then, besides identification and
classification?
Hey, look, you already thought of another purpose. Good work.
I regard them as two sides of the same coin.

You regard wrong.


O R'lyeh?

Why would we classify anything but to identify it later? How can we identify what isn't classified?

While I disagree with the general thrust of UC's argument, I'll have to agree that any system of classification will, by its very nature, be usable as a system of identification, and vice versa.

- SRNissen
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