[tdwg-content] A question of Ranks [was: Re: tdwg-content Digest, Vol 20, Issue 17]

[Nico Cellinese]

I think the pic was stripped by the listserv. Here it is 
http://bit.ly/9YQHMf

Nico


On Nov 4, 2010, at 5:10 AM, Richard Pyle wrote:

> 
> Nice pic!  I remember when you took it.  For those who don't know us
> personally, Bob is the one standing, waving his arms (as Bob is prone to
> do).  I am the one in the lower right foreground, looking like I've gone
> without sleep for days (as I am prone to do).
> 
> At the time, I was looking over your shoulder and saw that you were tweeting
> back and forth with Jim Croft (and I think Rod Page as well).  What made
> that funny to me was that Jim was in the room, just out of frame on the left
> side of the photo, and Rod was (presumably) in Glasgow, and the three of you
> were having a virtual conversation in real time, during a conference
> presentation.  It's a different world....
> 
> Anyway, to bring it back into scope for this email list, I'll note that in
> the photo I'm wearing my treasured GBIF/TDWG T-shirt, customized with the
> embroidered caption, "GUID's Rule".  I think of "GUID's" as possesive, so
> it's comparable to something like "God's Rule".  Coincidentally, I happen to
> be wearing that very same shirt right now.
> 
> So...where were we?
> 
> Rich
> 
> P.S. One final off-topic salvo: Nico, you have no idea how jealous I am that
> you were at the rally!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> 	From: Nico Cellinese [mailto:ncellinese at flmnh.ufl.edu] 
> 	Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 5:21 PM
> 	To: Bob Morris
> 	Cc: Richard Pyle; tdwg-content at lists.tdwg.org
> 	Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] A question of Ranks [was: Re:
> tdwg-content Digest, Vol 20, Issue 17]
> 	
> 	
> 	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
> 		
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> 		On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Nico Cellinese
> <ncellinese at 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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