Of course Bob!!
Nico (picking up her pieces after exploding)
On Nov 3, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Bob Morris wrote:
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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