Wow, lots of responses here! Going back to a more productive approach, let me suggest another pair: yes-list and no-list. It's easy to understand, non-dubious, and easily translated.
[]'s Francisco Em sáb, 20 de jun de 2020 15:54, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> escreveu: > On 2020-06-20 at 13:33, deloptes wrote: > > > (by logic and ontology there is either P or not P that can be true). > > If you consider LGBT to be normal, then all the rest is considered as > > not normal or vv. > > By this same reasoning: > > * If you consider white to be normal, then all the rest (e.g., black) is > considered to be not normal. > > * If you consider male to be normal, then all the rest (e.g., female) is > considered to be not normal. > > * If you consider right-handed to be normal, then all the rest (e.g., > left-handed) is considered to be not normal. > > In reality, of course, in each of those cases there are multiple > distinguishable things which all fall within the range of what is > considered "normal". > > There is no inherent reason why the same could not apply to the context > you cite. > > -- > The Wanderer > > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw > >
