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minus-squarekadu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoBut no two men are equal too. No two money bills are equal. No two spoons are equal. We do not need things to be Platonic copies of each other to treat them equally.
minus-squareaffiliate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agothis comes up in math too. there are many situations where we don’t need mathematical objects to be platonic copies to treat them “equally” so we work with equivalence relations instead.
But no two men are equal too. No two money bills are equal. No two spoons are equal.
We do not need things to be Platonic copies of each other to treat them equally.
this comes up in math too. there are many situations where we don’t need mathematical objects to be platonic copies to treat them “equally” so we work with equivalence relations instead.