From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Jun 02 2002 - 19:25:27 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Michael writes
>
> > Out of curiosity, what do you think of those who ascribe to other groups a
> > ratio of, say, (30% devil, 20% child, 50% "our kind of 'real' person"),
> > whatever that might mean? ...Does that make all of those people incredibly
> > arrogant? Or imperialist? Or merely human?
>
> This question may suffer from the ambiguity of "other groups"
> the way that Wei Dai's and Hal's discussion of rational Bayesian
> agents does.
That was rather intended to be [part of] my point. Thanks for explicating it.
No, I didn't mean to include, say, bacteria, all fish in the order
Plectognathae, piles of bricks, hills of ants, or dogs, although these are
indeed all "groups".
Then again, it's interesting, some people do talk/act as if some subsets of
humanity _are_ piles of bricks, anthills or packs of dogs.
Cf. Lakoff & Johnson's work on metaphorical thinking.
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