ABSTRACT
Biodiversity is a biological concept – this assumption does not come as a surprise, save the objection that a term which is used in context A (say, biology) is not only on grounds of this specific application ‘by nature’ a concept that exclusively belongs to context A. The use of the same term in context B (say, engineering) will generate no misunderstanding, as far as we assume that term ‘a’ now represents concept ‘b’ (and not concept ‘a’ anymore). To give an example, the term ‘field’ (‘a’) may be understood as a biochemical description of factors (a), which are thought to hold a determinable role in the process of morphogenesis (A). In terms of electrodynamics (B), however, the same term refers to a bundle of organised forces, generated between charges of specific qualities (b). The term obviously designates two different concepts, which are explicable unanimously, given the respective context of theory and laboratory practices. 1
