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To: Doctor Stochastic

And if I've goofed it up, I welcome and acknowledge all corrections.


1,541 posted on 02/02/2005 12:25:07 PM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry; Alamo-Girl; tortoise

There's another fallacy I've discovered but I can't find a reference to it; someone should have seen it before. I would like to call it the "Fallacy of the Clade" or "Cladistic Fallacy" because "Taxonomic Fallacy" is already taken.

This fallacy consists in assuming that "being a member of a group" is a property of an individual rather than a property of the classification method. It's not the same as the "Fallacy of Composition" or "Fallacy of Division." It's peculiar to cladistic analysis.


1,572 posted on 02/02/2005 12:49:44 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: PatrickHenry
And if I've goofed it up, I welcome and acknowledge all corrections.

That's going to excite the leather crowd.

1,611 posted on 02/02/2005 4:49:10 PM PST by js1138
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