First human

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At 08:32 PM 3/30/98 -0800, Sara and/or John Hamilton wrote:

>>>JOHN HAMILTON

>>>On his Challenge list we could not get him to list even one human trait.

>>

>>Perhaps because there are no traits that are uniquely human.

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>>Dick Jones

>>

>JOHN HAMILTON

>That was exactly our point.  He was claiming that there were.


This is entirely a matter of semantics, not reality. Human
traits are those arbitrarily and whimsically defined as being
human. All divisions and subdivisions of reality into classes
are internal in the mind -- such divisions are not in external
reality. Reality is a single thing.

Dick Jones

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