Comparison of elements in the classification table of the two feasible ways. The first involves an exhaustive description of a single object and then comparison of it with other objects, gradually supplementing it other characteristic features prevailing in the totality of the signs genus and species (Buffon). The second defines the genera and species of plants, more or less than an arbitrary set of features and omits other features that they contradict (Linnaeus). But he and the other path ("method", and "system"), for Foucault, still defines the General settings of classical thinking; the idea that "nature does not make leaps", singling out the types of through the classification grid of identities and differences between them. And so, between "fixism" and "evolutionism" in natural history the classical period, there can be, says Foucault, the opposites, which is looking for them in the history of science present day. "Evolutionism" of the classical era has nothing to do with evolutionism in the modern sense of the word insofar as it is linear and assumes only infinite perfection of living beings inside a preset hierarchy, and not the appearance of qualitatively new types of living organisms. Maybe Cuvier even closer to modern biology, sharpens -- his thought Foucault -- than follow in the footsteps of Buffon Lamarck, because it goes beyond the classical field of the relations of thinking and being, introducing between radical discontinuity, and Lamarck closes its evolutionary ideas within classic continuous space view.
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Comparison of elements in the classification table of the two feasible
ways. The first involves an exhaustive description of a single object and
then comparison of it with other objects, gradually supplementing it
other characteristic features prevailing in the totality of the signs
genus and species (Buffon). The second defines the genera and species of plants, more or
less than an arbitrary set of features and omits other features that
they contradict (Linnaeus). But he and the other path ("method", and "system"),
for Foucault, still defines the General settings of classical thinking;
the idea that "nature does not make leaps", singling out the types of
through the classification grid of identities and differences between them. And
so, between "fixism" and "evolutionism" in natural history
the classical period, there can be, says Foucault, the
opposites, which is looking for them in the history of science present day.
"Evolutionism" of the classical era has nothing to do with evolutionism
in the modern sense of the word insofar as it is linear and assumes
only infinite perfection of living beings inside a preset
hierarchy, and not the appearance of qualitatively new types of living
organisms. Maybe Cuvier even closer to modern biology, sharpens --
his thought Foucault -- than follow in the footsteps of Buffon Lamarck, because
it goes beyond the classical field of the relations of thinking and being, introducing
between radical discontinuity, and Lamarck closes its
evolutionary ideas within classic continuous space
view.
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