 The primary take away is that care should be taken when philosophers use the term “cladist”. Though there are a lot of interesting philosophical topics to unpack around this term, it must be acknowledged that it has become ambiguous. There are simply too many senses of this term for it to be used without clearly specifying precisely what sense is being invoked. We encourage philosophers writing about phylogenetics to follow the lead of systematists, and avoid using the terms “cladist”, “cladistics”, and other cognates as synonymous with “phylogenetics”. Instead, philosophers should reserve usage of those terms and carefully specify which sub-set of phylogeneticists (or their work) those terms are referring to.