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President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson , who was confirmed by the Senate Thursday, shocked many people with her recent confession to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she could not define the word “woman,” explaining that she is not a biologist. It can indeed be difficult to define a word like “woman,” though not for the reason that Jackson seemed to betray. The concept of woman, like all common nouns, comes to us as something self-evident through experience, not exposition. Common nouns are things a toddler can easily come to identify as a universal classification and often does so with glee!
For this very reason, though, we find it difficult to define common nouns, for it is something we seem to understand innately. We can’t help but chuckle, for example, at Plato’s attempt to define a human being as a “featherless biped.”
Behind this curious phenomenon, however, lies the whole basis for political freedom, for the same moral vision that allows us to see the distinction between common nouns such as “man” and “woman” allows us also to see the ultimate equality in natural rights for all human beings. Thus Jackson’s inability to define “woman” is […]
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