[Taxacom] Plant names - Reynoutria etc.

[John Grehan]

I wasn't referring to biogeography as such - just any science.

Cheers, John

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:36 AM Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
wrote:

> Biogeography is a special case, John! My comments weren't including
> biogeography.
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> On Friday, 12 February 2021, 06:24:14 pm NZDT, John Grehan <
> calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Stephen makes a good point about scientific studies not 'showing'
> anything, but I am not sure either that they can "suggest" a conclusion
> either. It would seem to me that any conclusion is also a product of a
> "complex" process of thinking by the researcher/s partly involving, as
> Stephen notes, politics in the general sense. Is science just metaphysics?
> (just rhetorical, various philosophers have ground down enough on that one
> and it's all above my pay grade).
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> On a more specific note - "3 genera are well separated from Polygonum in
> molecular and morphological characters" is all relative since there are no
> absolutes in how 'separated' anything is from anything else.
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> Cheers,
>
> John Grehan
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