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I don't think that living it differs much from feeling it. I don't think learning about yourself is like sitting back, taking inventory, and reporting...

Well, it kind of goes hand-in-hand with my whole joy-in-hopelessness thing, but I suppose that in spite of the feeling part of what I mean by "getting...

Unsuccessfully only on the terms of universality. In that part of the discussion she posits that it's possible that some people have such and such and...

Who pretended he had no talent? That's an extreme that hasn't been stated. And I have no idea if I do, in fact, despise his politics or ideology. He's...

Ummm... nothing really. It's hard to give a good evaluation of someone without knowing much about them. And two articles later I'm not sure it's worth...

Mostly by design. The mixture of the party system and first past the post elections and the amount of political clout money has and the socio-economic...

To me it just looks like a fact, because I see no reason to believe they could have been otherwise -- in a physical sense. Well, strictly speaking I'm...

Right. But it does so on the basis of your next sentence: But what if a difference, however minor, isn't possible at all? How do we infer that these m...

Not at all. Nor should we just accept any thought experiment just because someone thinks it sounds good. Let's take the gravitational constant. 6.6740...

If they are not identical, then might they have some relevant features that differ when evaluating their probability?

Do you think that a deck of cards is identical to the constants of physical theory?

I'd pick 1.

:D I'd say that neither is any more a waste of time than arguing itself. Plus science is all about arguing over facts. It's not like it's all just set...

What is factual about them? In order for us to know 2 we'd have to run an experiment. So we'd start a universe with different values and see what came...

Heh. Well, we had a different understanding then. I'd say that your 2 is at least uncertain, and is what I was speaking to before. If the values were ...

Hrm? I'm granting the facts. What you're quoting is a rephrasing of the argument. So we have the facts from the SEP article: The strength of gravity T...

Let's take this: So it could have differed in one direction or another direction, hypothetically speaking. But it didn't. Why didn't it? One explanati...

There is little doubt for you. It's worth noting that there's a difference between the arrangement of a deck of cards, and existence. The constants in...

And even given a rigorous formulation it seems to me that all one would have to do is change or challenge one proposition to obtain the desired conclu...

This is half of what I believe. I'd just add that the primary reason there is any debate is that the predisposition for different persons is either fo...

Is it, though? Another version of the teleological argument argued that while evolution is true, there had to be an initial designer to put together t...

I guess I don't see much difference between FTA and other forms of the teleological argument -- is that an unfair characterization, in your view?

Nicomachean Ethics -- Aristotle Meditations -- Marcus Aurelius Not as direct as those two, but this website (surprisingly named epicurus.net !) offers...

I suppose I take it that she draws a lot more from said rejection than I do, though. The details of the rejection seem important to me, which is why I...

Attempting to find out what would be a bit more congenial to your taste's @"creativesoul" -- I think awareness through time is doing most of the work ...

Also to note -- I think that the politics of gender abolition are simpler. But they are too simple -- I think the facts forced me to reconsider anothe...

So she has three things that she thinks gender identity must have: Universality: It needs to be a phenomena that all persons have. Stability: It needs...

That's fair. I can get along with that -- I haven't really been thinking in terms of plausibility, psychology, or facts as much as just getting a basi...

Yes, one can be wrong about one's gender identity. Further, I'd say Rebecca does not necessarily have a gender identity. Why go so far as to call it a...

Have you? It seems to me that you've just declared it nonsense. (EDIT: I should note here I believe you're sincere, I'm just telling you my impression...

Yeah, I kind of felt like that, though she does address that too. If you modify the claim then she's just not talking to people like that, and believe...

Because you can intentionally tell yourself a lie, and then become unaware of said action. I'd say I agree with @"unenlightened"'s examples above -- w...

Alright, finished it. I don't exactly agree with what she's saying. But to answer her question of "Why" it seems enough to me -- from the strictly leg...

Still listening to it. 25 minutes in.

Sure. Listening now. Seems at odds with anything I'm saying, but I'm listening.

Sure. I can go with that. That's why I thought a dimension of time was necessary, as well as some way of explaining how we shift from one part of the ...

But if we can be in self-contradiction, then we can also be in self-contradiction about our beliefs. So we might just ignore it, which is something li...

Have you ever felt like you were not yourself? Or perhaps you felt you were not true to yourself. Surely if you know yourself, then you do know what i...

So if we can have or hold conflicting beliefs -- ignore cognitive dissonance, as you put it -- then we can both know that two beliefs are in conflict,...

@"numberjohnny5" Bingo. Well, not exactly how I, personally, might do so -- I'm not after a step-by-step guide to lying to myself. But rather what wou...

Eh, I'm pretty much limiting myself to the more general question rather than digging into the specifics of gender theory, here. How this might work at...

Sorry for the time delay on not tending the thread. I'm glad to see the discussion continue, though. There was the weekend, and family, and other thin...

I would say the reason I don't know what it is like to be a bat is because I am not a bat. I know bats use echolocation, and I can imagine what that m...

I do not know what it is like to be a bat. But I do know what it is like to be myself. I do not know what it is like to be you or he or she or them. B...

Gotcha. Then my answer is yes -- one can know what it is like to be such and such. How do I claim this? Well, people make these sorts of claims freque...

It is. But not always. I'm not sure exactly the aspect of identity you're interested in. Is your focus on sex and gender, or is it on interiority -- f...

Hrm! I missed that thread. It was a good read. I think it's worth noting evil for what it is. In this case, war. I agree that this is a view somewhat ...

For most of us it is something beyond our control. How we react to war is something else. But it's not something we really have a choice in, and so is...

Is it? If it is necessary to have a split mind in order for it to be possible for one to lie to oneself, then it seems pretty relevant to me. At least...

Another thought on "splitting" -- Something that @"VagabondSpectre"'s approach does make me think of, explicitly at least, is that there could also be...