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  • CombatWombat@feddit.online
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    26 days ago

    There is no formal definition for fish that includes everything that we consider a fish and excludes everything we don’t. All human classification systems are based on vibes.

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      5 days ago

      well no, we have some systems that are about as objective as you can get them, and some systems that are pretty explicitly vibes-based because that’s more useful in daily life.

      like yeah sure taxonomy was vibes based at first, but nowadays we have genetics and very robust ways to figure out how things are related.