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sanguinity ([personal profile] sanguinity) wrote in [personal profile] alias_sqbr 2009-03-12 08:35 pm (UTC)

Boolean logic and classical set theory. *sigh* That "paradox" goes away if you use fuzzy sets.

[livejournal.com profile] color_blue and I were having an extensive geek-fest about race and racism in the context of classic-vs-fuzzy sets, in which we spent a while listing a bunch of classic race-and-racism cognitive traps that had to do with modeling the world via classical sets.

If we didn't actually list this particular trap -- I don't think we did, because we were talking more about construction of identity -- it's one more for the list.

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