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><channel><title>Yostivanich &#187; ageism</title> <atom:link href="http://www.yostivanich.com/tag/ageism/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.yostivanich.com</link> <description>Surfing the web and hopefully learning something new every day</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:20:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator> <atom:link rel='hub' href='http://www.yostivanich.com/?pushpress=hub'/> <item><title>One isn&#8217;t Many and Many isn&#8217;t All</title><link>http://www.yostivanich.com/2009/01/07/one-isnt-many-and-many-isnt-all/</link> <comments>http://www.yostivanich.com/2009/01/07/one-isnt-many-and-many-isnt-all/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:34:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Justin Yost</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ageism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[debate]]></category> <category><![CDATA[logic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reason]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[set theory]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sexism]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.yostivanich.com/?p=463</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of the arguments that I hear for why people express an -ism belief (racism, sexism, ageism, etc), is that they had this experience with this one person and you know that must be how everyone of that particular group is. I love this kind of reasoning it&#8217;s so illogical it&#8217;s almost funny and yet [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the arguments that I hear for why people express an -ism belief (racism, sexism, ageism, etc), is that they had this experience with this one person and you know that must be how everyone of that particular group is. I love this kind of reasoning it&#8217;s so illogical it&#8217;s almost funny and yet people do it all the time.</p><div
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class="wp-caption-text">Venn Diagram: Subsets</p></div><p>Mathematics will let you know that a subset is not always equal or the same as the larger set contained in it.</p><p>So why is that people assume that it is? Who knows, I suspect it has something to do with the same reason <a
title="Schneier.com: The Psychology of Security" href="http://www.schneier.com/essay-155.html">we are bad at assessing on an intuitive level risk</a>.</p><p>Be that as it may, maybe it would be fair for people who make those sort of assumptions that a subset is the whole set to decide that <a
title="Wikipedia: Notable acts of domestic terrorism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_United_States#Notable_acts_of_domestic_terrorism">white Americans are out to destroy America</a>, or that <a
title="Wikipedia: Christian Terrorism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism">Christians want to kill people and blow up buildings</a>. Yet we don&#8217;t assume that because it just isn&#8217;t true.</p><p>So do you still think the one is the many and that many is all or is it possible that it just isn&#8217;t true?</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.yostivanich.com/2009/01/07/one-isnt-many-and-many-isnt-all/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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