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Re: [ontolog-forum] An Ontology Modeling Different Age Groups

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From: "Conklin, Don" <don.conklin@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:52:20 -0600
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Bad analogy. A kidney has no capacity to be self sustaining hen removed from 
its owner.    (01)

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Chris    (03)

You're throwing emotional issues into the discussion.
I'm only talking about the definition of a "part".
The fetus is a part of the mother, in the same sense
that a kidney is a part of the mother.    (04)

Dick     (05)

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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] An Ontology Modeling Different Age Groups    (06)


> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Richard H. McCullough wrote:
>> From the viewpoint of metaphysics/epistemology, a fetus is not a human
>> being, it is a part of a human being (the mother).
> 
> Among philosophers, medical ethicists, etc, this is an entirely open and
> controversial question.
> 
>> After birth, it is a human being (the newborn).
> 
> Are you proposing that we become human beings only after birth?  Not
> that I'm interested in arguing the point, but that proposal is obviously
> false.
> 
> -chris    (07)


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