Thank you, Mike. I appreciate your note. Yes, some people may indeed have the kind of motivations you referred to. But there are two problems: one is that generalizations are built from a broad range of possibilities. So one can look at a suitable large set of individuals and derive a general assumption about that group. However, o…
Thank you, Mike. I appreciate your note. Yes, some people may indeed have the kind of motivations you referred to. But there are two problems: one is that generalizations are built from a broad range of possibilities. So one can look at a suitable large set of individuals and derive a general assumption about that group. However, one cannot apply a generalization to an individual, whether part of the original group or now. That's basic logic. There's also the fact that we are not in the realm of hypothesis here.
Thank you, Mike. I appreciate your note. Yes, some people may indeed have the kind of motivations you referred to. But there are two problems: one is that generalizations are built from a broad range of possibilities. So one can look at a suitable large set of individuals and derive a general assumption about that group. However, one cannot apply a generalization to an individual, whether part of the original group or now. That's basic logic. There's also the fact that we are not in the realm of hypothesis here.