Comment on Taxonomy

• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Classification doesn’t actually increase your understanding. It just feels like understanding to white cultural values. Learn a serious field of biology like biochem, neuroscience, endocrinology, paleontology… taxonomy doesn’t create knowledge, it only creates categories.

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Speak Great Splitter!

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  • yuri@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    holy shit lmao

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  • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I thought your post was a joke at first... oh well.

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  • gnufuu@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These words feel like they make sense but I don’t believe in categories so who cares what they mean.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah there isn’t one thing that can be said that will make someone so ignorant understand how wrong they are.

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  • eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, you could also simply stand around looking at things saying “hmmmm…”. After all every observation is unique, so you could accept all the differences and just observe it as it is, say “hmmmm” and then move on to the next unique and special observation. Trying to identify commonality and give it names just throws away most of the information in each unique and special experience

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  • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you don’t consider astronomy to be a serious field?

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      There’s a lot more to astronomy than just knowing what kind of thing a thing is. We don’t just look at dots in the sky and say “ooh, that’s a neutron star, that’s a brown dwarf, and that’s a planet”.

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      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        And we don’t do that in taxonomy either.

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  • EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It just feels like understanding to white cultural values

    Am I reading this wrong, or are you saying science is inherently racist?

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Of course I’m not saying that.

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