Ah, but here&#39;s the rub when it comes to Propositional or First Order Logic: If there is any assertion of Rich&#39;s---or anybody else&#39;s---about which you, Nico C, both agree and disagree, then every assertion whatsoever of yours is correct.  Now that part, I realize you already accept. The catch is that every assertion whatsoever of yours is also false.  See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion</a>  <br>
--Bob<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Nico Cellinese <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu">ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Wonderful to agree and disagree with you, yes indeed, even better with *spirit*! <div><br></div><div><div><div><div class="im"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Jon Stewart would be proud of us both.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>I went to the rally in DC last Saturday!  We two are indeed sane :-)</div><div><div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>As for the utility of ranks -- well, I&#39;m ready to agree to disagree, as long<br>
as we can both acknowledge that lots and lots of existing data &quot;out there&quot;<br>are still classified (in a taxonomic sense) against the Linnaean<br>nomenclatural system, for which dwc:taxonRank is a relevant (at least)<br>
attribute.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Indeed! As mentioned in a previous email to you, I  can live (even happy) with dwc:taxonRank :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Nico (who does not believe in species but thinks only clades are real)</div>
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