There is a common idea, at least in the West, and I would suspect in other cultures, that there is a single correct taxonomy of natural things-plants, animals, minerals, etc. A taxonomy is a cognitive model of a particular kind. Taxonomic models are common in cognition, and they are built into languages throughout the world. They are among the most common means that human beings have used to make sense of their experience. People have many ways of making sense of things-and taxonomies of all sorts abound. Yet the idea that there is a single right taxonomy of natural things is remarkably persistent. Perhaps it arises from the relative stability of basic-level concepts. [...] Since scientific theories develop out of folk theories, it is not at all surprising to find that folk criteria for the application of taxonomic models find their way into science. [...] My guess is that we have folk theory of categorization itself. It says that things come in well-defined kinds, that the kinds are characterized by shared properties, and that there is one right taxonomy of the kinds.
- Lakoff (1987), a pag.118-119

Classical taxonomies have fundamental semantic constraints. Each category is classical-defined by feature bundles. [...] A classical taxonomy is intended to be exhaustive-to categorize all the entities in some domain in terms of their properties. The highest category in the taxonomy encompasses the entire domain.
- Lakoff (1987), a pag.287