A useful antidote to indiscrimination is the extensional device called __________, a spoken or mental subscript that identifies everyone in a group as an individual even though all members of the group may be covered by the same label.

A. the index
B. symbolic language
C. abstraction
D. disconfirmation


Answer: A

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