Taxonomic style

For the distinction between an experimental style and a taxonomic style of reasoning, see Hacking [1992]. The assumption that the early modem and modem experimental sciences were not taxonomic goes hand in hand with the ignorance of experimental history on experimental history, see above, chapter 2. 

It is a question of when rather than if such avoidable mistakes will happen they are a logical consequence of the neglect of descriptive taxonomy. Museums in particular will have some explaining to do. Why were non-collections-based, university-style research programmes pursued at the expense of taxonomy when the world needed improved understanding of taxonomic diversity We... 

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