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Re: technical terms overhaul



Wow, lots of responses here!

Going back to a more productive approach, let me suggest another pair: yes-list and no-list. It's easy to understand, non-dubious, and easily translated. 

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Francisco 

Em sáb, 20 de jun de 2020 15:54, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> escreveu:
On 2020-06-20 at 13:33, deloptes wrote:

> (by logic and ontology there is either P or not P that can be true).
> If you consider LGBT to be normal, then all the rest is considered as
> not normal or vv.

By this same reasoning:

* If you consider white to be normal, then all the rest (e.g., black) is
considered to be not normal.

* If you consider male to be normal, then all the rest (e.g., female) is
considered to be not normal.

* If you consider right-handed to be normal, then all the rest (e.g.,
left-handed) is considered to be not normal.

In reality, of course, in each of those cases there are multiple
distinguishable things which all fall within the range of what is
considered "normal".

There is no inherent reason why the same could not apply to the context
you cite.

--
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw


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