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whole historic thrust of natural history, but with a psycholinguistic twist: we can
change in accordance with what any of our senses, or intuitive, or any other faculty
interpret. Granting the subjectivity of such interior shifts, we have, by de facto
conundrum, come to the individual’s prowess in terms of free-will, evolution, and
natural selection. The freedom to choose at the bequest of ancestries whose paradoxical contagion, chain of being, cumulative parturitions, has led to the individual.
96.2 The Poetry of Taxocoenosis
When those ancestor traits commingle in any guise, we see the emergence of
“taxocoenoses”
6
whose shared interspecies coefficients (e.g., coalitions) represent
profoundly encouraging evolutionary pathways that may transcend the conventionally presumed “environmental filters.”
7
That guise, as we shall name it, represents a
mystery affiliation that appears (though should not come as a surprise) throughout
the biosphere. The data sets used to establish these provocative hypotheses regarding species richness and phylogenetic combinatorial relational causes and consequences included a staggering 2999 sites containing “726 lichen species,” “114 bird
species,” and “233 insect species,”
8
in the aforementioned study from Spain.
The journal essay, “An Epistemology for Ecology” (Scheiner, Hudson,
VanderMeulen, 1993)
9
was largely a defense against a claim that the ecosciences
were not sufficiently “theory” oriented, or rules and laws disposed, to allow for an
actual epistemological theory of knowledge applicable to natural history and the
biological sciences. Years later, any such doubts have been vindicated.
Richmond Campbells’ “How Ecological Should Epistemology Be?”
10
considered Plato’s dialogue Theaetetus (ca. 369 BCE)
11
in which Socrates wearied of all
the discordant philosophical analyses concerning what constitutes knowledge,
including the rhetorical analogy to an aviary, a linguistically feathered Babel
immune to human guesswork.
Akin to Medieval definitions of God, and recent linguistic and phenomenological inquiries into the very existence of knowledge as Being, Plato’s frustrations in
6 See its etymological underpinnings in terms of biological communities, at: https://www.proz.
com/kudoz/english-to-serbo-croat/environment-ecology/4498915-taxocoenosis.html.
7 ibid.
8 See Laiolo, P., Pato, J. Jimenez-Alfaro, B. & Obeso, J. R. Evolutionary Conservation of Withinfamily Biodiversity [Dataset]. (Digital CSIC Repository, 2020). https://doi.org/10.20350/
digitalCSIC/10529.
9 By Samuel M. Scheiner, André J. Hudson and Mark A. VanderMeulen, Bulletin of the Ecological
Society of America (Vol. 74, No. 1, Mar., 1993, pp. 17–21), Published by: Wiley on behalf of the
Ecological Society of America, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20167407?seq=1#page_scan_tab_
contents.
10 In Hypatia, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2008, pp. 161–169, Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/228154.
11 See D. Bostock, Plato’s Theaetetus, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1988.
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whole historic thrust of natural history, but with a psycholinguistic twist: we can
change in accordance with what any of our senses, or intuitive, or any other faculty
interpret. Granting the subjectivity of such interior shifts, we have, by de facto
conundrum, come to the individual’s prowess in terms of free-will, evolution, and
natural selection. The freedom to choose at the bequest of ancestries whose paradoxical contagion, chain of being, cumulative parturitions, has led to the individual.
96.2 The Poetry of Taxocoenosis
When those ancestor traits commingle in any guise, we see the emergence of
“taxocoenoses”
6
whose shared interspecies coefficients (e.g., coalitions) represent
profoundly encouraging evolutionary pathways that may transcend the conventionally presumed “environmental filters.”
7
That guise, as we shall name it, represents a
mystery affiliation that appears (though should not come as a surprise) throughout
the biosphere. The data sets used to establish these provocative hypotheses regarding species richness and phylogenetic combinatorial relational causes and consequences included a staggering 2999 sites containing “726 lichen species,” “114 bird
species,” and “233 insect species,”
8
in the aforementioned study from Spain.
The journal essay, “An Epistemology for Ecology” (Scheiner, Hudson,
VanderMeulen, 1993)
9
was largely a defense against a claim that the ecosciences
were not sufficiently “theory” oriented, or rules and laws disposed, to allow for an
actual epistemological theory of knowledge applicable to natural history and the
biological sciences. Years later, any such doubts have been vindicated.
Richmond Campbells’ “How Ecological Should Epistemology Be?”
10
considered Plato’s dialogue Theaetetus (ca. 369 BCE)
11
in which Socrates wearied of all
the discordant philosophical analyses concerning what constitutes knowledge,
including the rhetorical analogy to an aviary, a linguistically feathered Babel
immune to human guesswork.
Akin to Medieval definitions of God, and recent linguistic and phenomenological inquiries into the very existence of knowledge as Being, Plato’s frustrations in
6 See its etymological underpinnings in terms of biological communities, at: https://www.proz.
com/kudoz/english-to-serbo-croat/environment-ecology/4498915-taxocoenosis.html.
7 ibid.
8 See Laiolo, P., Pato, J. Jimenez-Alfaro, B. & Obeso, J. R. Evolutionary Conservation of Withinfamily Biodiversity [Dataset]. (Digital CSIC Repository, 2020). https://doi.org/10.20350/
digitalCSIC/10529.
9 By Samuel M. Scheiner, André J. Hudson and Mark A. VanderMeulen, Bulletin of the Ecological
Society of America (Vol. 74, No. 1, Mar., 1993, pp. 17–21), Published by: Wiley on behalf of the
Ecological Society of America, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20167407?seq=1#page_scan_tab_
contents.
10 In Hypatia, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2008, pp. 161–169, Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/228154.
11 See D. Bostock, Plato’s Theaetetus, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1988.
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