Sure. Though even in cases like that, humans have a way of generalizing these sorts of things—that is, of inferring an intensional definition which they extend, rather than treating the set strictly extensionally. It would not surprise me if after a few generations such a community came to consider marrying someone whose parent has the same first name as oneself to be |kàù, for example.
If I recall correctly, they actually do. It falls under their incest taboo. So “bad” in any culture could probably be defined by a list of generalised principals which don’t necessarily share any characteristics other than being labelled as “bad”.
Sure. Though even in cases like that, humans have a way of generalizing these sorts of things—that is, of inferring an intensional definition which they extend, rather than treating the set strictly extensionally. It would not surprise me if after a few generations such a community came to consider marrying someone whose parent has the same first name as oneself to be |kàù, for example.
If I recall correctly, they actually do. It falls under their incest taboo. So “bad” in any culture could probably be defined by a list of generalised principals which don’t necessarily share any characteristics other than being labelled as “bad”.
Yup, more or less agreed.