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If 500,000 years ago a hominid sits by the fire they lit and is working on sharpening a stone tool, would you say: "someone / a person is sharpening a tool" or
by Aardwolf 2y ago
If 500,000 years ago a hominid sits by the fire they lit and is working on sharpening a stone tool, would you say:
"someone / a person is sharpening a tool" or "it / a hominid is sharpening a tool"?
- Dgrin 2y agoI personally would call them a human, but this seems like a false equivalence unless you believe that personhood is something exclusive to humans. “Someone / a hominid” is perfectly valid and could at the same time be “someone / a person”.