Parsimony and consilience: monophyly from a logical-epistemological approach, exemplified with exocorionic morphogeny of Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea).
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https://doi.org/10.32870/dugesiana.v33i2.7404Keywords:
egg, morphology, abduction, Leptophobia, consilience, Goethe, auxiliary principleAbstract
A logical-epistemological analysis and a defense of the Principle of Parsimony, based on inductive consilience, are presented to re-evaluate monophyly as the theoretical foundation of phylogenetic systematics; results are exemplified through a case study in exochorionic morphogeny of Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). The central epistemology and abductive logic of phylogenetic systematics sensu Hennig are expounded, following Fitzhugh's proposal. Sober's philosophical research on parsimony and its use in phylogenetic systematics, reformulated as the 'Extended Parsimony Model,' is reviewed. In conclusion, the 'Principle of Triple Consilience with Intergrades' is proposed as an independent justification for the Principle of Parsimony. In the case study, the model is used to review the contributions of exochorionic morphogeny in the discussion of the 'Klots hypothesis' on the genus Leptophobia Butler, 1870. It is shown that: i) exochorionic characters allowed for an improved version of the hypothesis, insofar as more consilient; ii) morphogeny, reinterpreted through Goethe's 'genetic method', serves as a 'bridge' theory between morphology and phylogeny in explaining synapomorphies through monophyly.References
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