ikt to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days agoUK Supreme Court rules ‘woman’ means biological femalewww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square106linkfedilinkarrow-up1300arrow-down18cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·24 days agoOnly if you assume that the word “means” defines a symmetric relation.
minus-squarePlaidBaron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·24 days agoLaws need to be explicit.
minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·24 days agoI don’t think anything in the ruling hinged on the semantics if the world “means”. That said, there is nothing ambiguous in saying that a logical relation is not symmetric. Symmetry, like reflexivity, transitivity etc, are well defined in algebra.
minus-squareWhirlybirdBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoIt is explicit, and it doesn’t say that a female child is a woman.
Only if you assume that the word “means” defines a symmetric relation.
Laws need to be explicit.
I don’t think anything in the ruling hinged on the semantics if the world “means”. That said, there is nothing ambiguous in saying that a logical relation is not symmetric. Symmetry, like reflexivity, transitivity etc, are well defined in algebra.
It is explicit, and it doesn’t say that a female child is a woman.