ON INTUITIVISM IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS: FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE
Maksim Viktorovich Vinarsky1
St. Petersburg University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Keywords: биологическая систематика, история научного познания, интуитивизм в науке, теория классификации, biological systematics, history of scientific knowledge, intuitivism in science, theory of classification
Abstract
The paper aims to discuss the problem of the intuitive knowledge in the classification of living organisms, placed in the historical context. The ‘intuitivism’ vs. ‘operationalism’dilemma is considered, and the changes in their inter-relations during the development of biological systematics are reviewed. The reasons for the neglect of intuitivism in the modern systematics and the possible consequences of this are considered.
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