[On the significance of presumptions in phylogenetics (regarding the paper of Pesenko, 2005. Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii. V. 66. No 2)].
Under brief consideration is the uses of presumptions, as a kind of a priori judgments, in phylogenetics in light of their critics by Pesenko (2005). It is shown that the concept of presumption is fully compatible with the hypothetic-deductive argumentation scheme allowing to realize the parsimony principle in its epistemic interpretation. System of phylogenetic presumptions deserves future development in the framework of construing phylogenetics as a kind of the informal axiomatics.
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