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> things that look like fish Well, apart from the circularity, we don't look like fish, do we? What we look like, we define, just like we define what 'fish' is
by tgv 1y ago
> things that look like fish
Well, apart from the circularity, we don't look like fish, do we? What we look like, we define, just like we define what 'fish' is. There's no need to go all Linnaeus about it.
- taeric 1y agoMy stance is somewhat similar, I think? Arguments that try and precisely define "fish" in some sort of "context free" space are doomed because people don't think of terms outside of context.
- rikroots 1y agoHuman embryogenesis would like to disagree with you. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13278255 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13278255
- tgv 1y agoEvolving from doesn't make you the thing, does it? It makes you something else. Fish in particular, since that's a group of animals named by us, based on physical appearance.
- dragonwriter 1y ago> Evolving from doesn't make you the thing, does it? Depends on the system of taxonomy; in phylogenetic taxonomy, that’t exactly how membership in a clade is determined.
- mcv 1y agoSo politicians are reptiles after all?
- IAmBroom 1y agoOntogeny does NOT recapitulate phylogeny. Exactly. But I believe in weak Haeckel's principle.