Reply to "A comment on 'An evolutionary system of mineralogy: Proposal for a classification of planetary materials based on natural kind clustering'"
2021
AMERICAN MINERALOGIST
DOI
10.2138/am-2021-7773
YI welcome the "Comment" from Hatert et al. (2021) related to the proposal for an "Evolutionary system of mineralogy" (Hazen 2019) and thank them for their historically informed, conceptually nuanced, and consistently constructive contribution. They offer corrections related to two facets of my paper that seemed unfairly to criticize aspects of the International Mineralogical Association's Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (IMA-CNMNC) protocols for classifying minerals.