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Warren DeMontague

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6. Have you and I already had a conversation about Korzybski and general semantics? I think we have.
Sun Sep 30, 2012, 07:08 AM
Sep 2012

Anyway, I tend to approach all assertions that contain statements resembling "X are Y"

(Where X = "Men", "Women", "Dogs", "Bald People", etc)

are (begone, demon!)

Y (Where Y="such and such","those and that", etc)

as if they were a feral cat, howling and incoherent, sick and potentially rabid- hiding in my garage. With a broom and a combination of sympathetic kindness and firm subtle menace in my voice.

Labels and categories can be useful tools, but like the bass drop in dubstep, tools often cease to be useful when they are mis or overused.

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