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- From: nev@Turing.ORG (Niles E. VanDenburg)
- Subject: Classifications
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.135727.8189@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
- References: <1992Nov17.212342.3025@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov19.112504.2677@bradford.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:57:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.112504.2677@bradford.ac.uk> S.S.B.Glover@bradford.ac.uk (SSB GLOVER) writes:
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- >For what it's worth, I spent almost seven years working in a biophysics
- >(later "biochemistry and molecular biology") department, but I'm a chemist
- >by training (honest!) and now retraining in computer science...
-
- I started out as a system engineer but got involved with producing
- software for computer simulations and after a loooooonnnnnnggg slide I
- now consider myself a programmer with no ambition and no hope.
- Outside of my job I enjoy field botany and tai chi.
-
- >Do we have any other chemists in the house? X-ray crystallographers?
-
- Botanists ? Taxonomists ?
-
-
- >Philosophy
- >Math = Applied Philosophy
- >Physics = Applied Math
- >Chemistry = Applied Physics
- >Biology = Applied Chemistry
- >Sociology = Applied Biology
- >Arts = Applied Sociology
- >
- >(NB '=' in this context merely means 'is a subset of' or similar)
- >
- >To Classifications! (and does ontology recapitulate philology?)
-
-
- But where does taxonomy fit in the above scheme? I would guess:
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- Taxonomy = Applied Biology
-
- but an equally good argument could be made for:
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- Taxonomy = Applied Philosophy
-
-
- On a more somber note:
-
- "To all the people suffering from Lyme disease, the current bane
- of field botanists in eastern USA/NA."
-
- <<crash>>
-
-
- --
- Niles VanDenburg
- nev@turing.org
- niles_v@cho000.cho.ge.com
- niles_v@cho000.dnet.ge.com
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