If you believe that your classification is true (as cladists do), then you is contradictory, because classification is contradictory, which Bertrand Russell also demonstrated in 1901 with Russell's paradox.
It is thus not your belief (ie, that your classification is true) that is wrong, but what you believe in (ie, classification) that is. Your error does thus not reside in your conclusion (ie, that your classification is correct), but in your assumption (ie, that classification can be true).
If you end up in this belief (ie, cladistics), you thus have to scrutinize your assumptions.
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