its unfortunate that cops think that judges are too stupid to follow a logical line of reasoning without dressing it up. But what do you expect when judges are elected and only people with strictly average IQ's can get hired as police.
Judges in Massachusetts are appointed. I don't know if that makes them smarter.
It was once well known that IBM stands for "I've Been Moved."
Unless you believe there is something going on in the brain that is not subject to the laws of physics, it is hard to make sense of that distinction.
Physicians make this distinction all the time. If you abstract only to the useful limit, as opposed to ad infinitum, as you have done, then the concept is easy to grasp.
I thought I had grasped it 30 years ago in medical school. Then I learned more about the nervous system.
This is not infinitely abstract at all. In the useful limit, you don't send a fibromyalgia patient to an orthopedist, but you don't send her to a psychiatrist either.
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