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I guess. But we're not in that universe, we're in this one, and the dictionaries don't say that. Bad analogies can't lead to good logic by making them longer.
by jkingsbery 4y ago
I guess. But we're not in that universe, we're in this one, and the dictionaries don't say that. Bad analogies can't lead to good logic by making them longer.
- jefftk 4y agoI think you might still be a bit confused about what Hofstadter is trying to do in the post? He's trying to show how strange the use of gender in English was (pronouns, "man" to mean everyone, etc) by writing as if he were in a hypothetical alternate universe where race received that treatment instead of gender.
- jkingsbery 4y agoNo, I get that. He even explains that in the post-script at the bottom. Maybe he's making a good point in an alternate universe.