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by locknitpicker·6d ago·view on hn ↗
> Biology is not a language, it's a field of study of phenomena that exist independently of minds.

Your personal assertion is quite wrong at a fundamental level. Biology refers to the field or study, not individual specimens. The field is comprised of the understanding that people over time compiled on nature, along with arbitrary frameworks that help people organize and reason about the topic.

Take the concept of species, and species classification. A specimens exists regardless of being classified or not. However, the same specimen can be classified differently depending on the state of the body of knowledge at the time. In some cases you had species being reclassified due to new findings, such as genetic tests.

Once you understand this, you learn that you can't claim that a field of study is anything other than abstractions and partial and incomplete observations compiled form people throughout time.