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[–] kadup@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

And BTW, what’s a fruit or vegetable is not some objective Sacred Truth that science “discovered”, it’s that science came up with a system of categorizing plants that people deemed to be useful for the study of Botany,

It's true that all biological classifications are just operational, they're not some absolute natural truth or a fifth law of thermodynamics. However, the definition of "fruit" is also not some arbitrary malleable classification we randomly attach to plant anatomy based on how it looks. There are biological definitions that are indeed malleable in that way, this one isn't.

Fruits are organs with a specific origin in the plant and with a very specific goal. Tomatoes are fruits, and there's no system of definitions that could group them otherwise that wouldn't either: contain contradictions or wrongful elements or be identical to the current definition of fruit. You could call them "blorgblurgs" but the elements in that group would be the same, because fruits are a specific part of a plant with actual reason behind the definition.