Ah, but here's the rub when it comes to Propositional or First Order Logic: If there is any assertion of Rich's---or anybody else'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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion 
--Bob

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Nico Cellinese <ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu> wrote:

Wonderful to agree and disagree with you, yes indeed, even better with *spirit*! 

Jon Stewart would be proud of us both.

I went to the rally in DC last Saturday!  We two are indeed sane :-)

As for the utility of ranks -- well, I'm ready to agree to disagree, as long
as we can both acknowledge that lots and lots of existing data "out there"
are still classified (in a taxonomic sense) against the Linnaean
nomenclatural system, for which dwc:taxonRank is a relevant (at least)
attribute.

Indeed! As mentioned in a previous email to you, I  can live (even happy) with dwc:taxonRank :-)

Nico (who does not believe in species but thinks only clades are real)

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