[Taxacom] We are cataloguing hypotheses & not real things -- I hope everyone appreciates the implications of this. Was Global species lists ....

[Pierre Deleporte]

Le 30/08/2013 12:32, Ashley Nicholas wrote:
> Dear All,
>   in this case species hypotheses (species are not real entities -- Popper's World 2)?

Poper's world 2 is sort of 'mental states',
hence something that can materially exist as a neuronal process in an 
active brain
= a bunch of neurones in successive states

so, rather Popper's world 3 = concepts in themselves (e.g. hypotheses), 
hence materially inexistant
= ironically "The unwordly world 3 of Karl Popper" (Bunge, 1981)

Pierre

> We measure specimens and populations (Popper's World 1). We extrapolate this limited data to hypothesise species.

> Regards
> Ashley
>
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