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put away the thesaurus dude.

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...

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...

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...

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...

I'd appreciate that

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...

It's a quote of someone using the word entails in natural language. The "clearly truth functional definition" it gives supports my interpretation, not...

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...

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

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...

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...

nope

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

You said words are fixed, that's just incorrect. People need common understandings of terms inside a conservation. Two people could even have sensible...

the way those terms are generally understood today, no, cis man and trans man cannot refer to the same human. Those are antonyms.

No. Practical means something different. It means you can say something like "the consequences of letting people born with penises into these places w...

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...

They're issued because someone was convinced this person behaves safely in a car, not because of metaphysical reasons about where they think perceptio...

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 ...

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...

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...

Nobody said that though, just said that it's not static. And it's clearly not

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...

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...

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 ...

oh i see

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...

love that, it captures a lot of the necessary nuance, imo, of what it means when someone says "that thing is that colour"

Why did Caldwell post it?

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...

That's my take too

so isn't all that answered in the physical description of the sequence of events?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

did you not read the very next quote?

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...

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...

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...

Is that the "premise being pushed"? Aren't both sides being argued for in this thread?

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...

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...

Can't believe you teased us with this but then said we have to wait until March.

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 ...

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...

there's naturally not a lot of literature because the ideas in that other thread are pure speculation - possibly worse than pure speculation.