Our discussion about reality is limited by what conceptualization can accomplish. A fundamental limitation is that conceptualization can't be both consistent and unambiguous with regard to both class (concepts, or kinds) and quantity at the same time, but that consistency in class is ambiguus between different consistencies and makes quantity contradictory between infinite and finite, whereas consistency in quantity (i.e., in finite and infinite) is ambiguous with regard to class (i.e., there are several different, consistent solutions). The reason for this limitation is that the relation between class and quantity is orthogonal (i.e., diametrically opposed).
This fact does not impress on cladists, since they comprehend the situation as that every dichotomously branching process instead can (self-evidently) be partitioned into clades. The problem with this comprehension does, however, reside in that it comprehends a dichotomously branching process as a class (a concept, or a kind), because this comprehension is doubly ambiguous - both in time and over time - thus being contradictory between the concept and the conceptualized. It means that although every dichotomously branching process can be partitioned into clades, not any dichotomously branching process can be consistently and unambiguously partitioned into clades, that is, no dichotomously branching process can be non-contradictory partitioned into clades.
The question for cladists is whether this means that True Clades can be found or not. The answer is no. Such "things" cannot be found. They are actually nothing but brain-ghosts. The problem with them is that history is not frozen, but continues in this day. And, history is not superior to present, but present is instead superior to history. The only thing we know for sure is that single objects exist now. Everything else are either ambiguous or contradictory brain-ghosts. The idea of "True Clades" is a contradictory brain-ghost. This kind of thing simply can't be found consistently and unambiguously, because classes that extends over time can't be found consistently and unambiguously.
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