[Taxacom] Article 16.2 of the ICZN

[Stephen Thorpe]

Clearly, the Code is there for a purpose - to make sure that communication about taxa is clear and unambiguous. Equally clearly, this cannot be done without fairly high levels of "legalism" (="pedantry"), just as you can't do bioinformatics without paying attention to "minutiae". Unfortunately, some taxonomists have an inflated opinion of the "science" of what they are doing, and too little regard for the effective communication of that science to a broad range of people...

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Pyle [deepreef at bishopmuseum.org]
Sent: Thursday, 26 November 2009 8:11 a.m.
To: 'TAXACOM'
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Article 16.2 of the ICZN

> The commissioners need to keep this in
> mind when they have the urge to increase legalism.

To my knowledge (I cannot say for certain), it is the desire of every
Commissioner to *reduce* leaglism in the future version of the Code.

Aloha,
Rich



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