Re:Too many species have been lumped together into Homo sapiens
by mcbits on Sunday December 05, 2021 @04:23PM
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You're carving out a definition to fit intuitive inferences gleaned by observing instances of "sandwich" and "not-sanwich" labeled by influential people in your life who had no objective reasons for constructing and perpetuating those categories in the first place.
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Re:Too many species have been lumped together into Homo sapiens
by jjk166 on Sunday December 05, 2021 @05:56PM
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I agree it would have been a lot easier if we precisely defined the sandwich before foods were invented so we'd know which category to place them in ahead of time, but alas barring the invention of time travel we have to deal with our forefathers' mistakes.