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  1. slatestarcodex.com

    The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories. Posted on November 21, 2014 by Scott Alexander. I. "Silliest internet atheist argument" is a hotly contested title, but I have a special place in my heart for the people who occasionally try to prove Biblical fallibility by pointing out whales are not a type of fish.
  2. lesswrong.com

    The title of the article is "The Categories Were Made For Man, not Man For the Categories." It isn't "Be Nice to People." This is the issue with entertaining bad premises to point out how they're bad premises--a third party gets to cherry pick the argument and make an easy rebuttal. ... Categories "made for man" are not conducive to ...
  3. "The Categories Were Made for Man" means that categories are created for a purpose. Sometimes it's useful to think of whales as fish. Sometimes it's useful to think of whales as mammals. The article is not asking us to recategorize transpeople across all possible categories, just the ones where doing so would not lead to silly things.
  4. news.ycombinator.com

    The point not being that you should call whales fish, but rather being: fuck categories. > When terms are not defined directly by God, we need our own methods of dividing them into categories. No, we really, genuinely, honestly, do not need any methods of dividing things into categories. We really don't.
  5. The only difference is the level of category. But there's no reason I have to group whales as whales. For instance, I (or King Solomon or some other tribe) can define a whale as any large animal in the ocean. Thus, there is no reason I couldn't put sharks and other large fish in that category. At which point not all whales would have tiny hairs.
  6. lesswrong.com

    The Codex is a collection of essays written by Scott Alexander that discuss how good reasoning works, how to learn from the institution of science, and different ways society has been and could be designed. It also contains several short interludes containing fictional tales and real-life stories. The essays contained have been widely read within the rationality and effective altruism ...
  7. Though of course that was 7 years after The Categories Were Made For Man was written. While someone's self-conception as anorexic or neurasthenic might inspire self-destructive behavior, at least the treatment itself wasn't too bad. (The treatment for neurasthenia seems to have usually been rest and isolation.) For transgenderism you don't have ...
  8. unremediatedgender.space

    Telling them that "the categories were made for man, not man for the categories" is not addressing their concerns—concerns that are about the actual distribution of bodies and minds in the real world that can't be changed by calling things different names. People should get what they want. We should have social norms that help people get what ...
  9. natethealbatross.medium.com

    The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories. This post is about cringey internet atheism, but as an anthropology major I find the writing for Solomon's responses delightfully funny. It also works for pedants. Things That Sometimes Help If You Have Depression. This article helped me understand therapy works for some people ...
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