Absolutely, I don't think anyone's denying that. Again, I don't see anyone denying this either. Once more, I don't hear anyone trying to argue otherwi...
I did offer a structural option too. Basically anything other than just hoping it's the case. I'd expect to see either some empirical evidence that th...
Not at all. I think the judgement of argument can be made on its effect. If I wish to argue that eating pigs is wrong, the success of my argument is c...
The relevance of that division is not the empirical vetification (that is simply the definition of the division) it is who is doing the verification. ...
There's a fundamental difference between the "origin of fossils and the causes of climate change" and something like philosophical propositions. The t...
Exactly. It fit with your experience. Do you really believe that what you were identifying in those essays was something universal as opposed to your ...
Really? Are those thoughts determined to be 'transcendentaly stupid' being decided by vote now? I think I must have missed the opinion poll you circul...
I thought I had quoted the OP (or at least the Deleuze quote within it). It's pretty unambiguously saying that teachers find remarks which are uninter...
It takes no account of the function of such thought to the individual. At best it's an honest mistaking of the personal certainty one's brain delivers...
Jesus bloody Christ (to borrow a turn of phrase) Any mention of the words 'brain in a vat' does not automatically and irrecoverably refer to to Putnam...
Harman's Brain in a Vat scenario may well have been a thought experiment, but he doesn't own the concept, neither does Putnam. The idea that we might ...
Community agreement between the players of that particular language game. If meanings we're all based only on personal representation we wouldn't have...
Yes, that would be the theory, but the science is a long way off. The point is that this still would not support the non-exclusivity that trans people...
Adressee oriented speaking requires that the meaning of a term used by one person is contained in the mind of another. This goes right back to the beg...
Why would this type of categorisation no longer be a problem if we were careful not to treat all women as identical. Take, for example, a women's grou...
It's not just about addressing. The terms 'woman' and 'him/her' are not used solely for addressing people. They are terms within a community of langua...
Absolutely. I don't want to poor cold water on such an impassioned exposition of how trans people are mistreated, but I said "it doesn't make anyone i...
I didn't say the full set of membership criteria are mutually excuse. I said that membership of a set is mutually exclusive on the basis that being la...
Let me try a metaphorical example. It is possible to be both a firefighter and a swimmer. There's nothing preventing you from being in both groups bec...
I understand that you need an explanation which fits with your experience. As I say, I'm not trying to push a particular explanation, I'm trying to ar...
Well, I don't know enough about biology either. Personally I'm with you on this. My default position in the absence of evidence to the contrary is tha...
Yeah, definitely. I imagine that it what the trans experience might be like, something I simply can't understand because the feelings are outside of m...
We're close then, but I don't see how to concede that one could be mistaken about a wish to be part of a group the only membership criteria for which ...
Just wanted to add in case it's of any use, that there is a possibility I can see that we have a set (let's call it {X}) for which the only membership...
Yeah... I thought by stating the argument in stages you might actually engage with it rather than just restate things you'd like to be the case as if ...
Two things, firstly, the series of overlapping similarities is, crucially, a finite series. Wittgenstein is saying that no one feature is shared by al...
Great, thanks for looking through all that. It does seem like the whole thing hinges on 1) as everything else stems from there. I have to go out for a...
This suffers from the problem that most replies here seem to me to suffer from in that it begs the question. You're starting from a presumption that t...
Let me try to simplify this on the off-chance that people are just not understanding what I'm saying (as opposed to simply ignoring it). Let me break ...
So what is the trans claim then? What is wrong with the definition of it that I provided in my last post. "it is proper courtesy for you to address me...
The vague 'references' to bodies is materially different to characterising a claim as being bigoted because it presumes trans people are hallucinating...
I can't really lay out Mary's concerns any more clearly than I have, so if you still think they amount to "nothing" then I guess we'll have to just ag...
No problem. Mary, when she uses the term "woman" means by it those with physiological attributes usually associated with two X chromosomes. She may no...
No, you're thinking of hallucinations. Delusions are false beliefs which persist despite evidence to the contrary but which cannot be explained by pre...
No, I said that if one effect was no greater than the other, not one effect is identical to the other. Yes, I wouldn't claim to be speaking for all fe...
I don't follow why you're assuming that only the physical can be a delusion. Agrophobics feel threatened by large spaces. The threat is a delusion it ...
I'm making an argument about what is logically implied by trans claims. I'm not trying to accurately represent the claim itself, nor am I presenting a...
I don't think anyone is suggesting it does are they? As far as I read it, Harry is stating his belief that people who think they feel like the opposit...
The begging of the question is in presuming that position when it is not a given. It is not a brute fact that people correctly report their feelings a...
No, we clearly haven't. If anything certain can be said of this discussion (and the wider debate in society) it is that no one is certain about the me...
Yes. Some people are sometimes deluded. You're begging the question. If you start from a neutral position that it is possible for people to be deluded...
If someone asked what species you were, would you expect me to ask you what species you 'feel like', or would you find it entirely satisfactory for me...
I simply would not try to assume someone's motives from something as vague as the tone of a few short thread posts. I get the sense from Harry's other...
Yes, you keep restating this as if it were fact, but I don't agree. I've written in every post in every different way I can think of how the words you...
Yet you think someone who is confident in their identity will be upset by how they are addressed. This seems like an oddly arbitrary distinction to dr...
Why have you cherry-picked this one property of terms used as an insult and argued against it as if it were the only property I ascribe? I've talked a...
One set of people believe their social status is best improved by adopting the beliefs and mannerisms of one group while another set of people believe...
I've not denied its a value judgement, I've expressly said that society reaches some general consensus on the matter entirely because it is a value ju...
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