People take even greater umbrage when they hear themselves labeled with a common noun. The reason is that a noun predicate appears to pigeonhole the with a stereotype of a category rather than referring to them as an individual who happens to possess a trait.

“Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system,…”

“Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the rel…”

“The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants an…”

“Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful de…”