On Nov 23, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Catherine Driscoll wrote:
> ...One of the things about stereotypes is that it's pretty hard to
> function with out them...
If a "stereotype" corresponds to the mode of a population distribution it can, in the absence of more precise information, serve pretty well as a pis-aller in forming expectations.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos