Its like classifying a library. Is the Italian cookbook written in French something we should classify as an Italian culture book, a recipe book or a book written in French?
Being an incessent cataloger myself as a librarian, I believe I may have something to add to the idea of nested heirarchies.
Both cataloging systems in the US, Dewey and Library of Congress, being created at a given time, are quickly rendered obsolete. Where does one place computer science or AI when such concepts did not exist in 1850?
To me this shows that the biological classification scheme is more than just solely a human construct. While it may require some minor tweaking, it does not over time have a similar appearance of obvious obsolescense as the classification of human knowledge.
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