Talk:Q756
Autodescription — plant (Q756)
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that are instances of none of the classes Tracheophyta (Q27133) and non-vascular plant (Q3239742) [1] - Instances of plant (Q756) that are instances of none of the classes wild plant (Q2570868) and cultivated plant taxonomy (Q2988930) [2]
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Mixup between plant and plants[edit]
There seems to be a mixup between plant and plants here. A 'plant' is a eukaryote organism of the kingdom Plantae, whereas 'plants' is the classification 'eukaryote organisms of the kingdom Plantae'.
'The kingdom Plantae' is a taxon. 'Plants' is either the group of all plants or a synonym of the kingdom Plantae. A 'plant' is an organism.
Those are big and important differences.
There is a big difference between a class of things (a taxon in this case) and an instance of a class of things (an organism in this case).
A plant is an instance of the class plants. It is something physical. Whereas plants is an instance of a taxon and is something abstract; it is the classification itself and not the physical thing.
Mixing them up would be a really bad idea that would lead to a lot of confusion.
So, is this item about the organism 'plant' or is it about the taxon 'plants'?
--Jhertel (talk) 23:07, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
- Of course, there is a difference between instance and class but here I can see no bad things. A plant (abstract plant, not specific, not the plant) is a representative of the class and can be identified with the class itself. Each specific plant (like Ruhr.2010 (Q324137)) is an instance of class "plants" (people say "this is a plant"). --Infovarius (talk) 15:44, 26 December 2014 (UTC)