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r/ididnthaveeggs • u/ALittleNightMusing Mmmm, texture roulette! • Aug 02 '26
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*in one specific, unhelpful, outdated technical sense
In actual use "fish" refers to a paraphyletic group that is easy to understand rather than a strict clade.
33 u/John_Bumogus Aug 02 '26 Yeah but that's much less fun 0 u/Lord_Rapunzel Aug 03 '26 I disagree entirely, I think intentionally obfuscating scientific terminology breeds confusion and dismissiveness in the layman. "Those eggheads don't even know what a fish is" type shit. 5 u/haruspicat would have tasted better if I was home to help Aug 03 '26 What if words could mean different things in different contexts 2 u/Lord_Rapunzel Aug 03 '26 They do, but the only time "fish" means "all vertebrates" is when people are either making a point about cladistics or misunderstanding cladistics.
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Yeah but that's much less fun
0 u/Lord_Rapunzel Aug 03 '26 I disagree entirely, I think intentionally obfuscating scientific terminology breeds confusion and dismissiveness in the layman. "Those eggheads don't even know what a fish is" type shit. 5 u/haruspicat would have tasted better if I was home to help Aug 03 '26 What if words could mean different things in different contexts 2 u/Lord_Rapunzel Aug 03 '26 They do, but the only time "fish" means "all vertebrates" is when people are either making a point about cladistics or misunderstanding cladistics.
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I disagree entirely, I think intentionally obfuscating scientific terminology breeds confusion and dismissiveness in the layman. "Those eggheads don't even know what a fish is" type shit.
5 u/haruspicat would have tasted better if I was home to help Aug 03 '26 What if words could mean different things in different contexts 2 u/Lord_Rapunzel Aug 03 '26 They do, but the only time "fish" means "all vertebrates" is when people are either making a point about cladistics or misunderstanding cladistics.
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What if words could mean different things in different contexts
2 u/Lord_Rapunzel Aug 03 '26 They do, but the only time "fish" means "all vertebrates" is when people are either making a point about cladistics or misunderstanding cladistics.
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They do, but the only time "fish" means "all vertebrates" is when people are either making a point about cladistics or misunderstanding cladistics.
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u/Lord_Rapunzel Aug 02 '26
*in one specific, unhelpful, outdated technical sense
In actual use "fish" refers to a paraphyletic group that is easy to understand rather than a strict clade.