ikt@aussie.zone to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoUK Supreme Court rules ‘woman’ means biological femalewww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square89fedilinkarrow-up1301arrow-down18cross-posted to: legalnews@lemmy.zip
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minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·3 days agoOnly if you assume that the word “means” defines a symmetric relation.
minus-squarePlaidBaron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·3 days agoLaws need to be explicit.
minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 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.
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.