Rex Kerr
Dec 22, 2022

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With your permission, I'd like to go off on something that is both a bit of a tangent and absolutely central, I think, to understanding the consternation around the issue of being binary or not.

It has to do with either linguistics or philosophy, or perhaps both. I will introduce it with a question to you, vis a vis your claim that "there's no special place for anyone in either category because neither category has any boundaries."

For people who have been educated with a definitional mode of categorization, this seems like a problem. This is generally how we teach it, and so generally how we think we should understand it.

However, I have a question for you: are the categories of "chair" and "couch" bullshit?

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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