Putting names to the way we organize the world can help us to understand it. It can help us navigate the world, too. Still, it's best to be cautious, so that we don't start believing that the "names" we ascribe to things are truly the things themselves - that the names we use are genuine "realities," as opposed to being simply the terms that we have developed, and that we have chosen to use to help us understand reality.
That was my thought as I reviewed this New Yorker cartoon, published way back in September of last year!
Let's not get caught in that "-ism" trap!
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