[Taxacom] complete list of all species

[Jim Croft]

It might have been Mike who said it, but I agree with him - almost.
Even if a taxonomist knows what they are talking about (a most worthy
topic of beer and debate), no-one who hears what the say can really
know what they are talking about because names nearly aways travel
alone and leave their concepts behind.

But that is a topic for another thread...

jim

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Mike Dallwitz
<m.j.dallwitz at netspeed.com.au> wrote:
> Jody Haynes wrote:
>
>  > I find Jim's comment "[t]axonomists literally don't know what they're
>  > talking about" somewhat offensive.
>
>  It was my comment, not Jim's. The key word is 'literally'. Taxonomists talk
>  about taxa. Because of the lack of adequate, reproducible descriptions (i.e.
>  definitions) of taxa, they can't be sure what they are talking about. If
>  chemists talk about chlorine, they know what they are talking about. What
>  they say about it may be wrong - that's another matter.
>
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