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Historians say that probably wasn't the real reason. We just know that the only way to issue it was through war power, which required the claim that i...

The genetics lines up pretty rigidly with the body functions.

Most of the Republicans running for president say they'll pardon him if elected. :confused:

That's it! We agree. The rest is gravy.

No, I was just saying that aggressive wokeness isn't helpful. I wasn't saying you do that. You're absolutely right. The way this ties back to the OP i...

Slavery was made in illegal in the US by a presidential proclamation. Previously, elections had resulted in a pro-slavery Supreme Court that was on th...

Yes, but it's mostly made out of cement and little sticks I found. There's a snake in here. I named him Leggy.

I think one way you can approach it is empirically, in other words, don't try to read people's souls. You don't have that ability. Plus if you ride in...

What makes you think "disgust" is the keyword then? Do people express this to you?

I'm guessing you experience this yourself. Do you think society should "push back" against your feelings here? Or just let you express how you feel?

There's a judicial sound to this post, or did I read that in? I mean, I respect your opinion on this, and your right to forcefully advocate for it. I ...

Apparently people on social media are attacked for rejecting the equivocation. It's silly, and I think it will go away eventually.

I think maybe he's going to jail for real this time.

I think this is the crux of the matter. If I claim that transwomen aren't women, you'd think I'm transphobic?

I think as this situation matures, a trans woman will be satisfied saying that she's living as a woman, but that she's not a biological woman. I think...

Love ya, mean it. :smile:

It's just been my experience that feedback threads are usually ridiculed and ignored. It's weird that the shoutbox seems like a place. :grin:

I understand your point of view, but feedback threads and PMs are wastes of time. Calling someone out in the shoutbox works. It just did. You guys hav...

Each state will come to its own conclusions about how to do it. That's democracy.

I've been surrounded by unisex bathrooms for about a decade.

The hike hammer comes down tomorrow: "On Friday, June 16 the Fed released the semiannual monetary policy report to Congress. The report is inclusive o...

Something like that, yes. The trans issue really hasn't been a problem in most American communities. Corporate America loves all citizens who have mon...

That's correct. My stance is that in communities where the majority are ok with the ambiguity, they'll allow trans women to use the women's facilities...

I assume you realize that Andrew is schizophrenic and expressed that he felt lucky that he escaped the lure of what he considers now to be a false par...

Of course, I'm sure it's there.

I didn't see this. Would you be able to point to that post so I don't have to go on a mining expedition?

Oh good. Because I'm sure you'd agree that if we banned someone for pointing out the challenges gender philosophy poses to feminism, or challenging us...

Just out of curiosity, did we not just ban someone for expressing the sentiment you are? My impression is that we did.

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Forty-two.

There are two sexes, male and female. If a person is born female, they have XX chromosomes and the potential to give birth. In most human societies, t...

You're saying that if your mother claims to be a woman, we understand and agree because of external criteria. If you claim to be female, you're wrong,...

They have a portal to another universe and they need to stop hogging it.

This is interesting, it's a viewpoint on why gender is an open ended concept: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UD9IOllUR4k&feature=share8

I think people in the women's rights movement specifically wanted to leave definitions behind, to allow women to be viewed as fully human. The ideal w...

And female is the purposefully non-defined word? You mean legally defined? In today's judicial climate, I wouldn't expect a trans person to get far in...

How can we change your self-identification? Aren't you in charge of that? If you demand to be called she, then in a professional setting, that's what ...

I don't know a whole lot about it. I've just been struggling to place Descartes in a historical context since we started reading this. I don't think I...

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What does it mean if a person keeps having dreams where they're inappropriately naked, and they're embarrassed, but they also think: I can't help this...

So maybe influenced by Renaissance humanism?

What sort of embodied cognition would you say you're defending?

Ok, so maybe later in this century, but for now, all mainstream science starts with an analytic attitude. That means we can't connect Merleau-Ponty to...

What an astounding assertion. Do they have any predictions about which century this update will be downloaded?

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Which part of the Meditations inspires you to suggest this?

There's a problem with trying to go from Merleau-Ponty to any of the hard sciences. There's just no bridge from his observations about what we can and...

There are non-human animals who adapt in terms of behavior, but not physically. An example close to home is mice and hamsters who escape from pethood....

Some proponents of embodied cognition would argue that the environment provides the body with all the stimulus necessary for navigation to food and sh...

So you would agree that if "embodied consciousness" refers to the belief that consciousness arises from the whole body, then it must be wrong, since t...