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.
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