[FRIAM] Morphogenisis

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

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:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com

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

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2021 8:27 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
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.

 

-- rec --

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20210509/5ed987bb/attachment.html>