Re: Perfect Organisms

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2000.05.09 at 18:24:33(4555) Hear, hear, how true for natural kinds. How untrue for, say cultivars. Cultivars are "defined" and they are bred and maintained to keep exactly withing the definition of it. So a particular instant of a cultivar (a plant) may indeed be perfectly 100% according to the "truth" behind it. That is because the human mind in this case defined the "truth" and "created" images/instances of it by breeding. Wilbert +More ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Sent: dinsdag 9 mei 2000 3:47 Subject: Perfect Organisms > Plato in the famous "Cave of the Shadows" section of the Republic said that the > instances of what we see in the objects of our experience are like the shadows > cast by the "truth". How that applies to an individual living being is that > such is an inadequate representative of the principles defining the type. The > principles are the truth which one should seek, looking past the specimen. > > Iza Goroff > Whitewater Wisconsin > > > >

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