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Many philosophers—particularly amateur philosophers, and ancient philosophers—share a dangerous instinct: If you give them a question, they try to answer it.

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

Eliezer is right, and I would add a corollary that you almost always run into trouble trying to fit objects into human-defined abstract categories.

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