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No, we assess the harms that such a worldview might cause and come to some appropriate social consensus on their expression. So can you point to the a...

This makes no difference. Exactly the same could be said of actions. What constitutes a single action determines entirely the count of 'actions' in an...

No, that's not really what I'm saying. I don't think there is a right meaning of the term "woman". It means different things to different people, and ...

Yes, because it's 'one' decision. If I talked about multiple piles of sand, and you spoke of just one big pile, would that be absurd? Is it absurd to ...

No, not really. I've certainly no sympathy for his views in this regard, but I don't think anyone should be labelled a bigot for theorising that belie...

I really don't see anyone objecting to this first part, so we have almost universal agreement that people are entitled to make such a request. The par...

No, I'm using the term to describe someone who is deserving of that rank, not one who legally possesses it. So it remains possible for to request you ...

But that's only according to your definition of 'lord'. Mine is someone who is lordly as in 'our lord Jesus Christ' and so if I claim that's the way I...

Seems an odd response. I'd have thought that my no knowing the answer was pretty much the only case in which there would be any point in your explaini...

But I've just given reasons to refuse, you've just ignored them without response. Why is it unreasonable to ask that I'm addressed as 'lord'?

But Bill and William are simply references, they have no other meaning, so the request is a neutral one. The meaning of the word William doesn't have ...

John says "I'm a woman" - meaning that he feels like he is something which he would describe as 'a woman'. It's important to him that his feelings on ...

This I agree with. One cannot dispute the psychological fact of feeling, but feeling 'like you're a woman' applies a meaning to the term 'woman' that ...

I appreciate the respect in your apology, but I also respect the honesty in your original remark, so will back out. Thanks.

You're just reiterating what I've already discussed with Banno without actually addressing the arguments. It is definitely not a matter of common cour...

Fine. I wasn't aware that this had become a private forum.

But you have access to your entire experience of time, no? Is any of it available to other people via their senses? Or does the entirety of it have to...

Yeah, if you're not going to actually follow the line of argument but just critique half-sentences to sound superior then there's not a lot of point i...

Sorry, my wording was ambiguous. I'm not making a claim about the existence of time, I'm saying that the entire experience of it is constructed in our...

No, change is not in the horse category, because we cannot simply look at it to see it exists, we cannot point to change, we experience it, which leav...

The concept is of a thing in spacetime such that we can look and see it isn't there.

But this is already a grammatical error because horses and (the proposed) unicorns are both things, objects in spacetime which can either be there or ...

It might be what you think of as courtesy but I can assure you it most certainly is not 'common'. Try it and see how many people comply.

No it isn't. If someone wishes to be addressed as 'lord' it is not common courtesy to comply with that request. If someone wishes to be addressed as '...

Not at all. One might consider it crucially important to one's world-view that proper names are bestowed by parents, not the person themselves. In tha...

As ever with these threads the debate gets quickly moved to people's pet issues and I realise I haven’t actually answered your question. I was involve...

It won't. What it might do is get you to see that there is nothing further to be resolved. It's like one person describing the field as 'emerald green...

I don't know if you intended to address this point to me or Sam, but, given your range of "philosophical" problems not tied up with language problems,...

I understand, but surely you're not so hubristic to think that your version of 'significant thought' is going to be universally understood? That's why...

By shaking the certainty that there is a 'problem' out there which requires anyone's help in that sense.

You've just replaced 'decision' with 'commitment', how do the two terms differ in this context? I'm really not going to carry on like this, but can yo...

And you're sure what an 'essence' is? Have you read no debates on the meaning of 'subjective?

Is that just wishful thinking, or do you have some reason to think this? If you could provide an example of some philosophical terms whose meaning you...

OK, so if you actually want to do this. Define 'decision' without begging the question. Define a 'line of action' without assuming cause and effect. D...

Just hoping I haven’t joined in without proper qualification. Presuming you yourself intend to take part in this 'higher level of discourse' perhaps y...

If you can describe a philosophical problem and then define each word you just used in a way that will gain even a substantial minority of agreement t...

So now long-established conventions are what determine right behaviour? You can see where that leads in respect to transgender issues surely. For the ...

What is that difference? John would like people to to refer to him a particular way. He would like everyone to use the terms 'Mr' and 'Mrs' to refer t...

Because Mary's choice of how to apply terms is her choice, it expresses a part of who she is no less than John's choice of hairstyle or dress. Why wou...

But that's not what's happening with the transgender movement though is it, and it's slightly disingenuous to paint it that way. What actually happens...

I have no issue with a very strict responsibility on society towards its children, one of my professional areas of interest was in child development a...

Ah, so now the conclusions of Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations have become universal truths, the ignorance of which renders any related pro...

It depends what meta-ethical framework you're working from. Ethics can theoretically be debated within a meta-ethical framework, but it's difficult to...

Yes, but the point Horwich (and indeed Popper) are both making, is that any theorising is done, not in a exclusive sense. Wittgenstein is intending to...

This goes back to the distinction I made in my previous post to you. A description of 'what is' aims to be inclusive. Wittgenstein is trying to descri...

How is "well-founded" a criteria for assessment? How is "meeting a challenge" or being "well articulated" criteria for assessment? You've not specifie...

Also, who determines what the criteria of assessment are in the case where there is disagreement? Is it again the case that philosophy at large, who c...

Fine, what were the criteria of assessment contained within your OP?

That doesn't seem to make any sense. You said that the measure of the substance of an issue (substance you claim is lacking in my critique) can be det...

What difference does this make. I obviously think I have articulated it and laid out it's implications (within the very tight constraints of a short f...