Letter: Letter

From Keith Leiper

In the article on multiple universes you refer to a “schizophrenic table”. By
this I suppose that you mean the table has a “split personality”.

The term “schizophrenic” is popularly thought to indicate a “split
mind”—perhaps a Jekyll and Hyde condition in which a person alternates
between normality and violence.

In fact, most people with schizophrenia are affected in quite different ways.
The term

is likely to cause distress when it’s misapplied. You should use an
alternative.

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