R.

 

When quine used taxanomic species as the model for a “natural kind”, I knew 
that “natural kinds” were not a natural kind. 

 

If natural kinds were “aspirations”, is “The Tree” a failed aspiration?   

 

Can scorpions sting themselves?

 

N

 

Nick Thompson

 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> 
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2021 8:27 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Morphogenisis

 

This is sort of fun 
https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/, 
just in case you thought the categories of "tree" and "wood" had any coherent 
biological or evolutionary meaning.

 

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