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The Mark of the Best

Data Over Dogma

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The Importance of Prototype Theory

In traditional taxonomy, you have to be in one category. But with prototype theory, yes, there can absolutely be overlap. And so Jesus is, exists at the overlap of the category of humanity and deity. Dictionaries do not adjudicate meaning. They report on usage. But they do so using a fundamentally distorting framework that we can reduce.

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