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That's not a rule. That's a heuristic.
by greyface- 5y ago
That's not a rule. That's a heuristic.
- Ourgon 5y agoThat is word play and does not achieve anything other than to muddle the discussion. What, in your words, is a woman?
- greyface- 5y agoHumans often -- but not always -- have 2 arms and 2 legs and 5 digits on each limb. Women and men often -- but not always -- are cisgender/cissexual. You are allowing for an exception to the heuristic in the first case, but not the second.
- dekhn 5y agoIts a heuristic which is consistent with biological evidence and our best understanding of human biology and evolution.
- kadoban 5y agoHeuristics are by definition approximations. If all you're claiming is that it's a heuristic, I suspect you're not making the argument you probably think you are.
- akomtu 5y agoIt's a physical law, which is a heuristic so accurate that exceptions are almost unheard of. We don't say "the 3rd Newton heuristic" just because in some weird curcumstances it's not accurate.
- da39a3ee 5y agoThat's what biology is like. The binariness of human sex is much clearer than many distinctions in biology.