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fubarobfusco comments on Stupid Questions July 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 06 July 2015 04:00:22PM 0 points [-]

Sorry, the analogy isn't that close. I was just trying to get at the idea of there being a "doctor" node which is different from any one particular property of doctors, because it's a socially defined cluster, not a natural kind.