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“To build neat boxes, nested or otherwise, was to ‘make suppositions which are always contrary to Nature, to strip the subject of most of its qualities, and to create an abstract being that has no resemblance to the real being.’”
— Sep 22, 2025 03:47PM
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“Of the mongoose, he observed, ‘Monsieur Linnaeus made it first a badger, then he made it a ferret…others make it an otter, and others a rat; I cite these ideas…to put people on guard against these appellations that they call generic, and which are almost all false, or at least arbitrary, vague, and equivocal.’”
thinking about how everything is literally just made up by some man makes my brain explode
— Oct 09, 2025 02:26PM
thinking about how everything is literally just made up by some man makes my brain explode
