In other words, we no longer ascribe predicates to certain individual members of a group – we ascribe predicates to a group, an abstraction. As Robert Anton Wilson put it, “Once one leaves pure mathematics, the ascription of predicates to groups always introduces fallacy.” Wilson added that stupid prejudices in general (racism, sexism, etc) consist, “in logical terms, of ascribing predicates to groups”. And if the point doesn’t seem clear or emphatic enough, he also supplies a quote from Nietzsche: “To ascribe predicates to a people is always dangerous”.
