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Slave is a superset of the slave subtypes. 'Viking' is not such a superset because it didn't really exist at all. So the slave example isn't misleading, just in
by bigDinosaur 4y ago
Slave is a superset of the slave subtypes. 'Viking' is not such a superset because it didn't really exist at all. So the slave example isn't misleading, just incomplete as all generalisations must be. I'd find it problematic if you referred to slaves who were in fact not slaves at all, though.