On Willi Hennig's (ie, cladistics') conceptual meltdown

Reality can be described in at least two different ways in different aspects: as consecutive patterns (like "hairy" and "bald") or as process (like "changing from hairy to bold"). This duality means that there isn't any single true description of reality to be found per definition, because all descriptions are are indecisive between patterns and process per definition.

This fact does not exclude the possibility to partition reality into only processes (ie, conflating pattern with process), like Willi Hennig did with the class "clade" (originally erroneously called "monophyletic groups"), thus creating an impression that there indeed are true descriptions of reality to be found, and that all of these descriptions furthermore can be consistently combined into a single true description of reality (ie, Hennig's "single tree of life"). This possibility is, however, merely a conceptual (abstract) illusion. Fact is that the possibility is consistently (ie, paradoxically) contradictory by instead incorporating the fundamental duality into the class "process" (ie, "clade"), thus making it internally indecisive, that is, consistently (ie, paradoxically) contradictory. The "denial" of patterns by conflating them with process does not actually get rid of patterns, but only inconsistently interprets them as processes, which thus is paradoxically contradictory (ie, making such "processes" indecisive between patterns and process).

Hennig appears to have believed he "solved" this problem (ie, fact) by equalling "process" with "later" patterns, ie, what he called "apomorphies", thus distinguishing these from "earlier" patterns, ie, what he called "plesiomorphies". This distinction is, however, actually irrational by resting on the assumption that there indeed are true descriptions of reality to be found, and that all of these descriptions furthermore can be consistently combined into a single true description of reality (ie, Hennig's "tree of life"). Fact is the opposite, that is, that there isn't any single true description of reality to be found per definition, because all descriptions are are indecisive between patterns and process per definition, meaning that Hennig's distinction of "earlier" and "later" patterns, ie, what he called "plesiomorphies" and "apomorphies", instead is consistently (paradoxically) inconsistent. Patterns actually can't be consistently partitioned into only "earlier" and "later" when there are more than two consecutive patterns, since it then are at least three kinds of patterns: "earlier", "change" (ie, process) and "later" per definition.

The possibility Willi Hennig thus utilized to partition reality into only processes (ie, conflating pattern with process) using "clade" (originally erroneously called "monophyletic group") is thus actually a consistently (paradoxically) inconsistent conceptual (abstract) illusion. All possible such phenomena including more than two consecutive patterns are actually paradoxically contradictory. This fact is, however, visible only in the objective aspect. In the subjective aspect does it reside in the observer's own eyes and reveals itself only by his/hers consistent inconsistency.