On classes and empirical science

No, classes are not real, because the assumption that they are lands in paradox (ie, Russell's paradox). We can, of course, classify reality, but classification is ultimately inconsistent, actually paradoxically contradictory.

To believe in classification, like Cladistics and Higg's particle-ism do, is thus paradoxically contradictory. Empirical science can't be belief, but can just be a consistent method to discuss reality. It can't replace beliefs, because it does not believe.

The classification of empirical science is thus ultimately paradoxically contradictory, but the conclusions of it isn't. Empirical science is merely a tool to predict future, nothing more and nothing less. This it does more or less accurately, but never perfect. Empirical science is thus merely a help to us to prepare for what is coming. The fact that it has spin-off effects like designing televisions and digitalization of data is just a bonus.

Empirical science is thus not served by belief in it, but, on the contrary, opposed by it. We actually ought never believe in what we conclude must be the case. In the moment we believe in it, it disappears like a ghost.