tisdag 4 september 2012

Cladistics looses itself in the fogs of simplicity

When we classify reality, there are only two aspects we have to keep consistently apart: reality and the abstract (ie, object and class), to keep reality and our perception of it consistently apart. In doing so, there is one aspect we misses, the middle. There simply is no place for a middle between reality and our perception of it. It means that classification can't pinpoint reality unambiguously.

If we, like cladists, instead claim that classification indeed can pinpoint reality consistently, then we actually claim that there is no difference between reality and the abstract, and thus that there is a middle between reality and the abstract.

If there indeed is a middle between reality and the abstract, then there is no reason to partition our perception of reality into reality and our perception of reality, and thus that reality is what we think it is.

If reality is what we think it is, then the question is: what who thinks it is? We can, obviously, disagree about both what reality is and what history is, so which comprehension is correct? If the answer is the most parsimonious comprehension, then the most generalizing perception is right. The notion thus turns simplicity into a virtue. Knowledge is in this approach only a burden. The boldest painting of reality in only black and white wins. The approach thus looses itself in the fogs of simplicity.   

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