DTS300H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Public Service Announcement, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Nominalism
16 Jan 2018
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(200 word) making up people ny ian hacking, what does he mean. People categorize people after they are aware of reality. Mother jones = in 1869 anti sodomy law in prussia,maria divided race into four sexual types, said that it is against the basic mans right to obstruct sex, documentation(pamphlet) Production of certain kinds of people by categorizing them. Kids who are friendly beware, public service announcement, if they become too personal too quick beware they might be homosexual. Nominalism vs realism = both are concerned with universals, a universal is something that can be instantiated by different entities. Realism: yes there are universals, our categories come from nature, nature sorts naturally into our categories, they are fundamentally different but we call them arbitrary names. Nominalist: no there are no universals, stars have nothing in common except the name star. there is nothing general except names. our categories come from humans.
