Cladistics (Willi Hennig) got off the problem for biological systematics on the wrong foot

Cladistics (Willi Hennig) got off the problem for biological systematics on the wrong foot. The problem isn't which dichotomously branching illustration of the origin of life that is "true", but that there can't be a single "true" dichotomously branching illustration of the origin of life.

This problem is due to that classification is orthogonal and thus ultimately paradoxically contradictory, which also Bertrand Russell demonstrated in 1901, and is actually the reason for Linné's invention of his orthogonal classification, which avoids the paradox. Cladistics' (actually Hennig's) belief there is a single "true" dichotomously branching illustration of the origin of life does not change the fact that there isn't. Belief can overcome many problems, but not change facts.