Standing n.b.: With rare exceptions, human/social phenomena are *continuous.* To treat them as discrete is merely a convenient shorthand.
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There's no such thing as a "sociopath" or a "democracy" any more than there are discrete "species" or black-and-white "adaptations."
sometimes disruptive selection has been through and destroyed all the tidy continua
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sure. I guess you could say (discretely), "a banana is not a crab." but crabness is still a fuzzy category.
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I wonder if intelligences that didn't use words would be less prone to reification (and how that would even work)
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