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Re: Plant taxonomy and rose by other names
Jean aka JOlson8590 at aol_com said, in part,
> Roses will
> still be
> roses, orchids will still be orchids.
You might be interested in reading Saul Kripke's, *Naming and
Necessity*
June 1980
192 pages
Cloth edition:
$29.50 / £20.50 / €33.90 (one world price)
ISBN 0-674-59845-8
Harvard University Press
Saul doesn't discuss interspecies mating but he does address the issue
of a rose, so named, necessarily being a rose.
For what it's worth,
Scott H.
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