Message from @SnowPirate67
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but other's reference the label
Nah, you can't really know yourself and that's the funny thing
the definition
other's can't know your 'identity'
And most people know about themselves less than others
to them, they only need the minimal set of traits that sets you apart from the set of entities they have encountered
Others can identify you as for example, an enemy or a member of an outgroup. If they can do it then it's in the realy of possibility
so if a person never encounted a black kid before and you are black, that is sufficient to identify you from the others
the point is the is the set of comparison for the other person and the set of comparison for you
And to you, you don't need any traits, is that what you mean?
Sorry I haven't slept and just finished a paper my brainz don't work properly
what i mean it is only the mimimum required given a variable set of comparison
the baby can use any label they like for the cat
they only need to differentiate it from the dog
It's an abstraction of the cat.
correct
it's a representation
which is only 'good enough' to seperate it from other representations they have accumulated
That's why the abstraction of concepts from physical referents is an crucial basis of knowledge.
But identity is something that's identifiable so on the very basic lingual level it is still possible to
The reason why I vehemently oppose individuals who seek to reverse the process.
as the set of representations expands, more traits are required to differntiate and identify an entity
yup
but rand described those concepts decades before they were published in psychological journals
Piaget describes these in the 20s
Gender was always an abstracted concept from the two, physical referents of male and female physiology.
He was way before Rand
but there is a diffrence between a 'slot and a signal'
To reverse the process and claim primacy in mind over reality is the very definition of insanity.
gender is a relative reference
Gender was always a concept in the language and was for some reason also applied to inanimate objects
^^Yup
it's critial for the opposite role to interact with given a degree of uncertainty
it's LESS critical for all of those who share the same key attributes
it's far more critical when the interaction is with one outside that group
gender is a 'slot'
and that slot sends signals to the other slot
change the slot, and the signals no longer work as intended
Again Piaget did a whole lot of work in this how we group gender and such