The class clade is a conflation of the classes monophyletic group and holophyletic group. The class clade is thus polysemous. The problem with this conflation (polysemiaty) is that also the class paraphyletic group is a class of monophyletic group, because it means that the class paraphyletic group bridges the classes holophyletic group and monophyletic group, thus actually being an interface between them.
The approach called cladistics, only acknowledging the class clade and denying the class paraphyletic group, does thus actually deny interfaces between classes in a generic sense. It explains why cladists believe that the class clade can be found, although it is just the interface between objectivity and subjectivity, because it is impossible to understand what one denies.
Cladists thus can't understand because they deny understanding.
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