Fish do not exist because of pedantic technicalities? Reality isn’t real
No no, it’s that humans are technically in the fish group of evolution, even though it happened a LONG time ago. That’s what they mean by “cladistically”, there is no “clade” of fish. Look up “humans are hagfish by Clint’s Reptiles”. He explains it wonderfully
Wow. This video was great. Thank you!!
Scientists said the oceans would run out of fish by 2048. In fact, fish stopped existing today. Sick burn.
Have you heard about birds?
It’s worse.I mean they’re just dinosaurs, which are also reptiles, which are also fish.
Birds, surprisingly, are just air fish.
Birds are the fish of the sky soup.
Birds also don’t exist, it’s all government drones.
It’s more that biological classification is tricky and linear, and vertebrates went in and out of the ocean a few times
Aha okay. That makes me feel better, thank you.
This is like bemoaning the fact that doctors don’t treat “the humors” anymore. We gained knowledge that invalidated what we thought we knew, so we’ve updated our understanding. Unless you’re a taxonomical marine biologist, it’s really very unimportant anyway, I wouldn’t worry about it.
At least I can stop worrying about the fishmen abducting me in my sleep, they don’t exist anymore because of this classification revelation
I’d say that since all men are fish-men your worries should be increasing.
That Innsmouth look.
Yeah, they never existed to begin with, sowwy
Please.
Please daddy.
FTFY
Papacito
Yeah I disagree with the idea that there is no such thing as a fish.
It’s like saying that there are no striped animals because both zebras and snakes can have stripes.
Sure, there is no common ancestor for hundreds of millions of years but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t a thing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just because we lack a definition, doesn’t mean something doesn’t exist.
It’s not even that we lack a way to define fish, it’s more that we lack a definition that isn’t arbitrary. One can define them as something like “vertebrates, except for all these ones that we don’t want to include”, but then there’s not really a clear reason to exclude all the amphibians and reptiles and mammals and such, other than that they don’t traditionally get called fish. Some of them even live in water, and a handful of fish can leave the water to a limited extent, so it isn’t even that.
So you are saying Pluto is a fish?
We don’t lack a definition, we actually just have so many narrower definitions that we don’t need one for “fish” anymore. The old, broad definitions become archaic and often inaccurate as we gain more knowledge.
When it’s a grouping that we lack the definition for, then the group doesn’t really exist, even if it’s members do and we all gave a good idea of what are, for instance, fish. Basically the group ‘fish’ contains all the things you think are fish, which is problematic as someone else may have a different idea of which things belong in the group, and while that’s fine when talking coloquially, you can’t really use it when trying to discuss things in a rigerous fashion.
The vast majority of language is not “rigorous”. Colloquial definitions are incredibly important.
Which is fine as long as you don’t try to make rigid distinctions out of your arbitrary colloquia and claim to be acting logically.
You can make distinctions based on similar “fuzzy” definitions, as long as you allow room for inevitable exceptions.
Yes.
Unfortunately I could still read this, needs more jpeg.
Slightly off-topic from the intended point, but I’ve heard this more often, that there’s no such thing as a fish, but it’s a useful constructed concept to have.
So why is it so important that we all remember that animals like whales are not fish, they’re mammals? Didn’t stop us from calling animals from other groups fish, why should mammals get a special treatment?
The point is to emphasize that whales biologies are significantly different from other similar-looking things, not technicalities about which named group they belong to.
Because mammals got those mammaries. So deeply rooted that humans can’t stop putting them even on non-mammals when we want to anthropomorphise in stories, myths and art
One man opinion about fish is not a universal truth.
Gender: fish
Nice to meet you, MrMcLure
I prefer smizmar
Is that you, Gil?
Is that you, Mr. Limpet?
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I was going to say ‘how about bony fish?’, but then I checked and I am technically a bony fish (Osteichthyes).
Just gonna swing by and drop this little grenade:
If you believe “race doesn’t exist”, then this post also applies to you. If you can refer to different genders while also understanding that at the individual level definitions are fluid and blurry, then you can refer to different races while also understanding that at the individual level definitions are fluid and blurry.
Source (Tumblr), alternate frontend
Transphobes 🤯 after reading this
Not even close to a transphobe and my mind is still blown at the fact of the nonexistence of fish.
The world is a wonderful place, and far too wide to need to conform to your pet theory.
I have a theory that you’re all my pets. So you will conform, or you won’t get a treat.
I have a theory that you’re all my pets.
And I’m living off of grass, and the drippings from my ceiling It’s okay to eat fish 'cause they don’t have any feelings
Good stuff, “my friend says we’re like the dinosaurs” would also have been slick
Edit: Yes and
Post is about fish so it felt appropriate
Indeed and definitely, I liked your reference
I would oppose this theory, but I want treats more.
You get a cookie
Bees are fish.
(in California)
I try to tell folks all the time that biology is not as simplistic as they think. It’s basically an endeavor of humans trying to make simplistic categories out of a naturally complicated clusterfuck. Some things defy labels, not everything fits into a nice, easy little box. Life is complicated. Get over it.
Pizza is a vegetable
Things a Republican Congress will vote for are crazy man
“What is a Fish?” coming soon
Whales are fish, fite me
The only land animals that aren’t fish are animals with exoskeletons. Whales are fish just as much as you and me are. And we are fish :)
Thank you for agreeing with me, but I specifically asked for a fight
Best I can do is fish.
You’ll never get that from me!
Gruahahahhaaaaa!
