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flannel jesus

['Member']Joined: July 08, 2023 at 12:47Last active: February 25, 2026 at 12:2922 discussions2884 comments

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put away the thesaurus dude.
January 23, 2026 at 17:43
Yes it means both things. Contextually you should be able to tell when someone is talking about orange as a property of the thing and orange as a qual...
January 22, 2026 at 18:27
Why is it something very different? Why can't "that object is orange" mean the same thing as "that object reflects the wavelengths of light required f...
January 22, 2026 at 16:41
I think the assumption that "you" has a referent separate from Bob or Alice is the problem. EITHER there's some spirit soul thing, a ghost going aroun...
January 13, 2026 at 13:17
Nor does it match how native English speakers use the word seeing. People suffering from psychosis may see things that aren't there. That's a complete...
January 08, 2026 at 10:14
I'd appreciate that
January 07, 2026 at 23:05
In explaining your interpretation of his words, you said this: "every truth is the sufficient reason for every other truth" If you plug in any truth f...
January 07, 2026 at 22:49
It's a quote of someone using the word entails in natural language. The "clearly truth functional definition" it gives supports my interpretation, not...
January 07, 2026 at 21:46
You keep insisting this, it's not any more compelling now than the first time you said it. That's not how people mean "entails" in natural language. I...
January 07, 2026 at 21:38
That's what you're insisting on, I don't think it's true. I don't think you interpreting what was said correctly. I think I've made that clear
January 07, 2026 at 21:18
I just read up on relevance logic as well, which is very interesting. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-relevance/?hl=en-GB#:~:text=The%20varia...
January 07, 2026 at 19:21
One way I've approached thinking about it, and I'm not sure it works but it feels like it works, is talking about it in terms of possible worlds. So i...
January 07, 2026 at 09:31
it seems weird that you're unaware of this gap between what people mean by "entails" and how classic symbolic logic treats those things. Surely in you...
January 07, 2026 at 09:02
I don't see anything explosive there. This seems like one of those cases of a misapplication of symbolic logic. Yes, in symbolic logic, for all P and ...
January 07, 2026 at 08:04
There's logistical problems with this. What about people with manufactured penises or vaginas? Who checks and how do they check? Would you subject a m...
January 06, 2026 at 19:38
let me spell it out for you a bit more clearly. The best argument for why trans women shouldn't be allowed in women's toilets won't rest on how we def...
January 06, 2026 at 18:52
You said words are fixed, that's just incorrect. People need common understandings of terms inside a conservation. Two people could even have sensible...
January 06, 2026 at 18:43
the way those terms are generally understood today, no, cis man and trans man cannot refer to the same human. Those are antonyms.
January 06, 2026 at 18:30
No. Practical means something different. It means you can say something like "the consequences of letting people born with penises into these places w...
January 06, 2026 at 18:26
I don't even know what this question means. Am I fixing? No, I'm speculating that in reality there is one. I don't fix differences, that's not a meani...
January 06, 2026 at 18:21
They're issued because someone was convinced this person behaves safely in a car, not because of metaphysical reasons about where they think perceptio...
January 06, 2026 at 15:34
if we don't want certain people in certain bathrooms, we should have practical justifications of that that aren't mired in trite things like semantic ...
January 06, 2026 at 15:08
That's a great question, and I'm not personally convinced very hard either direction. I think there's a lot of confusion around what it means to be tr...
January 06, 2026 at 14:47
you're doing a motte and bailey. You talk as if language is absolutely fixed and unchanging and then retreat to a more easily defendable position that...
January 06, 2026 at 14:30
Nobody said that though, just said that it's not static. And it's clearly not
January 06, 2026 at 14:23
I found this connection come up again in a podcast I listen to. Within Reason, latest episode, debunking arguments for god with Graham Oppy. They brin...
January 06, 2026 at 11:27
This is a bizarre take. We know language isn't fixed. Surely you know the language you're speaking now didn't exist 2000 years ago. And after it did c...
January 06, 2026 at 09:12
Aren't options pretty much cognitively the same thing regardless of what kind of world we live in? The mental processes that give rise to the feeling ...
January 06, 2026 at 08:42
oh i see
January 05, 2026 at 22:17
It depends on what you mean by "resemble". At best you'll get, "it's what that object looks like from a particular point of view in a particular conte...
January 05, 2026 at 19:30
love that, it captures a lot of the necessary nuance, imo, of what it means when someone says "that thing is that colour"
January 05, 2026 at 11:51
Why did Caldwell post it?
January 05, 2026 at 11:28
As a compatibilist, to me, options exist as a subjective thing. I'm a decision making machine, I don't know the future, but as a decision making machi...
January 04, 2026 at 18:21
That's my take too
January 04, 2026 at 13:02
so isn't all that answered in the physical description of the sequence of events?
January 04, 2026 at 12:48
that picture doesn't make that clear, but that's fine. My question is, don't we have a scientifically agreed upon sequence of events from "there's an ...
January 04, 2026 at 12:31
I don't understand what that picture is getting at at all. They both see an ice cream that's half red, half black. One has a mental image of it being ...
January 04, 2026 at 12:09
There are people in the world who research deadly viruses. There are other people in the world who, if given access to deadly viruses, would use them ...
January 01, 2026 at 18:06
did you not read the very next quote?
January 01, 2026 at 16:52
That doesn't make it a presupposition though. That just makes it a practical reality. It's a practical reality that we have access to physical objects...
December 29, 2025 at 20:31
Definitely an interesting case. He wasn't imprisoned just for being generally racist, it seems. It was for "possessing materials which could be of use...
December 29, 2025 at 19:53
I don't think most of these are presuppositions of science. 1. I mean, science is an attempt to understand the universe by humans, so... yeah this one...
December 29, 2025 at 18:05
Is that the "premise being pushed"? Aren't both sides being argued for in this thread?
December 25, 2025 at 09:23
What about it? I obviously don't know about it - and I still don't. You've just written a sentence on a forum, not given me a link to a reputable sour...
December 22, 2025 at 09:08
I have moments where I kind of agree, but the fact that hotels really were being lit on fire kinda changes the vibe of it a little bit. It sounds like...
December 21, 2025 at 22:31
Can't believe you teased us with this but then said we have to wait until March.
December 17, 2025 at 14:09
If gender is entirely and exclusively a social construct, as many feminists and even trans people like to say, then trans women are just men who want ...
November 26, 2025 at 10:57
I don't think there's as much presupposition as you think - I think moreso, it's about the obvious fact that we can experiment on the physical world a...
September 08, 2025 at 13:24
there's naturally not a lot of literature because the ideas in that other thread are pure speculation - possibly worse than pure speculation.
September 08, 2025 at 07:25