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No Quantification Without Qualification, and Vice Versa

机译：没有资格就没有量化，反之亦然

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Complexity in our universe, Herbert Simon once noted, generally takes a hierarchical, nearly decomposable form. If our purpose as biologists is to "carve Nature at the joints," then the quantitative biologist's pattern questions must embody some tentative claim of where the explanatory joints are—only after meaningful qualifications can notions of variance and covariance make sense. In morphometries, specimens and variables alike can be "carved at the joints," with a correspondingly great gain in explanatory power in both versions. Simon's advice is that the competent biologist's measurements should lie entirely within a single organismal component or else deal entirely with one of the joints. In either context, our best contemporary rhetorics of explanation in biology may resemble morphometries in their frank combination of carefully (i.e., qualitatively) supervised parallel quantifications that, taken together, result in new qualifications, leading in turn to new quantifications, and so on. In short, the relation between qualitative and quantitative in the organismal biological sciences is not an opposition but a complementarity, and the modern biomedical statistics of organismal form may be a particularly apposite praxis for exploring it.
机译：赫伯特·西蒙（Herbert Simon）曾经指出，我们宇宙的复杂性通常采取一种等级化，几乎可分解的形式。如果我们作为生物学家的目的是“在关节处雕刻自然”，那么定量生物学家的模式问题必须体现出对解释关节的位置的初步主张-只有在有意义的限定条件下方差和协方差的概念才有意义。在形态计量学中，标本和变量都可以被“雕刻在关节处”，这两种形式的解释力相应地都有很大的提高。西蒙的建议是，合格的生物学家的测量应完全位于单个生物成分内，或者完全处理一个关节。在这两种情况下，我们最好的当代生物学解释学辞典可能都类似于形态学，它们是经过仔细（即定性）监督平行量化的坦率组合，这些量化并行起来产生了新的资格，进而导致了新的量化等等。简而言之，生物生物学中定性和定量之间的关系不是对立而是互补，现代有机形式的生物医学统计学可能是探索它的特别合适的实践。

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