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nerzhin comments on Sequence Exercise: first 3 posts from "A Human's Guide to Words" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: byrnema 17 April 2011 12:14:57AM 6 points [-]

An advanced exercise would be to collect real world examples of when people ever make the mistake of thinking that categories can determine reality.

Comment author: nerzhin 18 April 2011 06:31:02PM 2 points [-]

A medium-level exercise would be to find such an example, in some news article perhaps, quote it, and ask what is going on.

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