| Message Number: | 483 |
| From: | Daniel Reeves <dreeves Æ umich.edu> |
| Date: | Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:23:41 -0400 (EDT) |
| Subject: | Re: Yootles, Capitalism, Futarchy |
When prefaced with "one" it has the second meaning. Thoughts on Futarchy as an alternative to Democracy? --- \/ FROM Andrew Reeves AT 06.08.31 15:01 (Today) \/ --- > The reason for the different impression between "man" and "Caucasian" > is simple. Caucasian is a special designation CREATED for the purpose > to set off persons belonging to it from other persons. There is nothing > bigoted in that; it is a legitimate scientific expression as a variety > of Human. "Man" on the other hand was not coined for the purpose of > offsetting the sexes; it is the translation of the Latin Homo which is > the name of the species we belong to. Just how it came that it acquired > a second meaning to designate the male gender I can't tell you, but it > is certainly not the only instance of words having two meanings. It > seems we already had an e-mail debate on this years ago. -- http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves - - search://"Daniel Reeves"

