Re: adding gender field on debian developer's database (from debian-devel)
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 18:54, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> It's easy and effective, when you do it right. A group is defined by
> the property you're talking about, and the world is divided into
> 'things with this property' and 'things without this property'. A
> classification of 'male or female' is invalid; it should have been
> 'male or not male' and 'female or not female', as two groups.
That's true of predicate calculus categories, but people categorize very
differently, at least according to Lakoff.
-k
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How many Unix hacks does it take to change a light bulb?
Let's see, can you use a shell script for that or does it need a C program?
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