lump~split (1)

The effort to lump to split

confusing the forest for the trees, the word for the tree and the phrase for the forest © 2024 meika loofs samorzewski In a lump of the world we call taxonomy people are split into lumpers and splitters. A "lumper" is a person who assigns examples broadly, judging that differences are not as important as signature similarities. A "splitter" makes…

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