?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=THE+SPECIES+PROBLEM+AND+ITS+LOGIC%3A+Inescapable+Ambiguity+and+Framework-relativity%0D%0A&rft.creator=Bartlett%2C+Dr.+Steven&rft.subject=Theoretical+Biology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Machine+Learning&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Logic&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=For+more+than+fifty+years%2C+taxonomists+have+proposed+numerous+alternative+definitions+of+species+while+they+searched+for+a+unique%2C+comprehensive%2C+and+persuasive+definition.+This+monograph+shows+that+these+efforts+have+been+unnecessary%2C+and+indeed+have+provably+been+a+pursuit+of+a+will+o'+the+wisp+because+they+have+failed+to+recognize+the+theoretical+impossibility+of+what+they+seek+to+accomplish.+A+clear+and+rigorous+understanding+of+the+logic+underlying+species+definition+leads+both+to+a+recognition+of+the+inescapable+ambiguity+that+affects+the+definition+of+species%2C+and+to+a+framework-relative+approach+to+species+definition+that+is+logically+compelling%2C+i.e.%2C+cannot+not+be+accepted+without+inconsistency.+An+appendix+reflects+upon+the+conclusions+reached%2C+applying+them+in+an+intellectually+whimsical+taxonomic+thought+experiment+that+conjectures+the+possibility+of+an+emerging+new+human+species.&rft.date=2015-09-04&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F9956%2F1%2FBartlett_The%2520Species%2520Problem%2520and%2520Its%2520Logic.pdf&rft.identifier=++Bartlett%2C+Dr.+Steven++(2015)+THE+SPECIES+PROBLEM+AND+ITS+LOGIC%3A+Inescapable+Ambiguity+and+Framework-relativity.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F9956%2F