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I think probably the extension of the term "disability" to encompass things other than objective disabilities (against the standard - more on that in ...

I'm not quite sure this warranted a thread, but, perhaps showing my hand, you are vastly underestimating hte liberality of people in general about sex...

This is an inarguable fact of reality. That people have spent pages darting around it is bewildering. Existence is only ever encountered through the s...

That is utterly bizarre and contrary to the concepts of those terms. I also think you're either lying or one of us is misremembering our conversation....

The majority of trans people are not victims of anything but the unfortunate situation of having a mental illness. That does not deserve disrespect, b...

Fair enough. It seems so to me. Fair enough. My point even annoys me. I just can't get out of it, in my own thinking.

I happen to think ideology is the problem - religion is jus the worst offender. Its adherence, not the content of the ideology. Athena wont talk to me...

It does, for your purpose. Perhaps that's the issue... I think what you're getting at is essentially the problem of other minds. I don't even know tha...

I suggest if you cannot imagine a level of interest sufficient to have motivated the OP, you are not paying attention to the world around you. This ha...

"known" cannot apply except to an S. Unless you have a hidden premise that its known by everyone in the Universe who could possibly know it then I don...

Hmm, i think more the tension between claiming to be an antirealist and accepting there (at least in the sense that "must" comes into it, if not fully...

Having very recently written on this specific piece, I think you are very much overreaching on the implications of it's content. All it really shows u...

.........................................what.................................... They decidedly did not back Chavez at any time that I am even vaguel...

I've just done it, and you have intellectually grasped what I'm getting at or your response would be incoherent. That's the difference between positin...

Fair enough. I don't quite understand why people think this, then. There's no reason to assume one must be (empirically) capable of knowing some truth...

:up: You've hit hte skeptical nail on the head when it comes to consciousness, I think. You explain here extremely well what I struggle to find words ...

It is obviously, clearly, not unintelligible to posit unintelligible objects. Its just pointless. It would be unintelligible (and its obviously, becau...

Because, if you read a summary of what happened - they are totally different stories. This weird need to align Trump with Hitler is pathological (not ...

I do not think that, for whatever it's worth

Excellent. Incredible (absolutely no negative valence to this at all). What are you thoughts on the current trend which says that traditional values a...

I'll just answer the thing, as I take it that's the meat here: I don't see why an antirealist has to say that. Again, It's likely my position has been...

Certainly fair in general - I thikn my quibble is more that 'indigenous' cultures aren't monolithic. Most didn't exploit their environment for lack of...

Wild. We're in exactly hte same place, philosophically on this one. Nice. There's some daylight between how we see the trans community being treated. ...

That's roughly my understanding, yes. Its a petrostate which has collapsed under it's reliance, as best I can tell, on oil. They've nationalized and e...

Fair enough - my knowledge is roughly the same, except extended over two decades as I've had a family who is a set of friends of my family, 'escape' a...

Yep, that's fair. Thank you - very reasonable position. That's fair. I just don't think that's the USA's problem. They should come in legally. I don't...

Going in reverse, because its easier: Yeah, I agree. Have said so. Our best info is the best way to reason. When we don't have good info, I entertain ...

Mate, I followed it. I didn't agree with you (or Austin, as it has since turned out). I agree, it's a mistake to equate what we perceive with what is ...

I suppose this, somewhat, rests on something Banno's type would say v something I would say: "When you look at a tree you see a tree". So much seems t...

Not quite. 'trans' hasn't existed many places at all. Most instances quoted are, in fact, torturous attempts to relitigate instances of historical hom...

Ok Ucarr.

They also tend to engage in murderous cultural norms, sexual assault, xenophobia and plenty of other pretty ridiculous things. The Noble Savage concep...

Hmm, ok, cool thank you. That's hugely clarifying. Is your issue that there are secure borders? I 'm not trying to corner you there; I take 'secure' t...

You've been evaluated. If they are non sequiturs or spurious, there's nothing to 'analyze'. I suggest that is the case. It is an incoherent request fo...

Definitely. It's taken me a while to realise that its required to claim antirealism. It makes me very uncomfortable as I need to push back hard on the...

It looks like I've had a comment or two removed. Unsure - but I can't make sense of this exchange as it sits lol. I think laughing is still good.

I'm not really seeing how this runs against anything else said though - anything discovered would ne 'natural'. If there is some 'non-physical' realit...

You'll need to explain why those policies (which are standard US immigration polices, enforced most harshly by Obama) are 'xenophobic'. It seems to me...

All three statements here are essentially non sequiturs to one another. The fourth, addended, seems to make less sense than the others.

I don't think so myself. There are no questions popping up for one who understands the position. The answer to all of them: It makes me morally comfor...

Been in the lounge lately? I am not being all that serious, because I'm not bothered by the lean, but there are several heavy posters who are obviousl...

Not really. Again, my comments seem to run on from yours in a way that doesn't quite alter them. I think the biggest argument for antirealism is the a...

That's definitely fair, and fwiw, where I sit. But I feel exactly the same level of passion as Wayf does about avoiding people who claim its either so...

I have my doubts. What narrative are you after?

Jesus Christ. The level of omniscience people in the Lounge have, specifically about Trump makes me laugh a little less haughtily at TDS.

Oh, its definitely left leaning.

Interestingly, this is how I've been taught consciousness operates: Conscious Preconscious (might become conscious Subconscious (cannot become conscio...

This seems like a lot (and, I do not mean this disparagingly. I'd not have seen this until this ninth page) of back-and-forward to simply say "Wayf do...

We don't. And all responses have tried to make this clear to you - it seems you are entirely resistant to critique.

Hmm interesting characterisation. I'm unsure I would go as far as unethical, but there definitely seems to be something "wrong" with, for example, the...