Category Archives: Ontology
What is a ‘female’ in medicine?
Above is the definition of the word ‘female’ from the MedicineNet site. According to this, the classification of an individual who bears young (or at least potentially), or produces eggs as a ‘female’ is out of date.
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What does the term ‘Islam’ mean anyway?
The standalone term ‘Islam’ has become problematic in recent years, particularly in public discourse around religion, culture clash, and terrorism in Western societies. The problem is old: the same term is assumed to refer to the same thing but in … Continue reading
The truth, or what’s left of it
We live in strange times. In the public sphere, we talk more than ever about ‘truth’ and ‘facts’, and yet in a civilisation that has developed some pretty good methods of getting at the truth, particularly in the sciences, medicine … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-vaxxer, climate wars, critical thinking, identity politics, objectivity
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the objective stance 