Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for January 07, 2014
January 06, 2014
January 08, 2014
Transcript:
Teacher: What family does the Ocelot, also known as the Leopardus Pardalis, belong to? Teacher: Baldo? Baldo: Um... I don't know. Baldo: No family on my block owns one.
The teacher is at fault. Both she and Baldo are using the word ‘family’ in a specific and restricted sense, just not the same one. As teacher and questioner she should have made her meaning clearer. This is why we have terms like ‘genus’ and ‘species’ etc.