tisdag 6 december 2011

Cladistics is the denial that reality has two aspects, pattern and process

Cladistics is the denial that reality has two aspects, pattern and process, and the corollary claim that not every description of history thus is self-contradictory per definition, but that there instead is a single True description of history to be found, manifested in its idea "a single True tree of Life".

Fact is, however, that reality has two aspects, pattern and process, and thus that cladistics' both denial and claim are plain wrong. Instead, fact is that every description of history is self-contradictory per definition, and thus that cladistics' idea of a non-contradictory "True" description of history is an illusion, a "pie in the sky". It would not help if all historians agreed on this idea, it would still remain an illusion. Facts is not a matter of popularity contest, but of undeniable conditions. Cladistics does thus deny undeniable conditions to instead claim self-contradictory conditions. Much can be said about this proactive "move", but most important is that it is self-contradictory.  

How long can this go on?

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