Mike & Randall
Please delete "in the same sense" from my remark.
I was trying to clarify the "part" concept by giving
another example of a part. I think the resulting
comparison of "kidney" and "fetus" was somewhat
helpful, but it clearly distracted us from persuing
the original discussion of a "fetus". (01)
I concede that calling the fetus a part of the mother
does not resolve all the questions concerning the
legal and moral status of the fetus. (02)
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] An Ontology Modeling Different Age Groups (03)
> On Wednesday March 25 2009, Mike Bennett wrote:
>> Not if "in the same sense" is given the formal definition of "has the
>> same DNA as".
>
> Under that definition, an individual's own gametes are not part of that
> individual, since crossover shuffles together genetic sequences from
> both of the diploid chromosomes during meiosis, producing haploid
> gametes with a genome distinct from that of either of the individual's
> own chromosomes.
>
>
> RRS
> (04)
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