Re: Abolish antisexism rules! Long live the equivalence of people!
On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:12:00AM -0800, Guy Maor wrote:
> john@dhh.gt.org writes:
>
> > I was merely offering Feynman's technique as an alternative to the
> > extremely ugly and awkward practice of blindly substituting 'person'
> > for 'man'.
>
> If you're interested in this sort of thing, I recommend reading
> Chapter 7 of _Metamagical_Themas_ by Douglas Hofstadter.
I reworked this chapter for a short talk when I was approved for a grant. I
was accepted :)
It is really a great text. The rest of the book is also very interesting.
Marcus
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