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Old 08-26-2006, 08:35 AM   #77
PanAtheist
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Once again you talk about the concept!
(And wrongly, to boot!)

This discussion is about the words of the term, ie it's name.
And without the underlying concept, the words are meaningless. You want to make this a fight over semantics?
It is a fight over semantics!

And it's a fight worth fighting!

Sane terms make for easy teaching and fruitful thinking. (Insane terms hamper both. And are doing so !)

It is an endeavour to aid teaching and fruitful thinking.

It's about challenging people's unthinking adoption of unhelpful names for scientific concepts.
And there is great value in challenging that!
Freethinking rules okay!

Healthy genes act as team-players. They are teamish!
Their winning plays are
salvations of an aliveness of which they are a part.
Only a fraction of genes are selfish/parasitic (and they
parasitize teams).
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