Pattern-chaser

It's not settled that there are differences in the brains/minds of males and females, associated with their biological differences? I think it is. I d...

In this topic, I don't understand why we ignore the brain and mind differences between biological male and female. By this I mean nothing complicated....

Your repeated use of "objective" bothers me, but (from the context of your words) I deem you mean 'unbiased' when you use the term. So can you apply y...

:sweat: "The proper philosophical attitude"? Please. :snicker: :roll:

highlighting.] You miss my central point, with your quibbling over terms and philosophical orthodoxy. :roll: Whatever this "something" is, can you qua...

:up: Yes. :smile: Well yes, I agree, and sympathise. But I'm not looking to spare feelings, my own as well as anyone else's. :wink: I'm trying to get ...

Does it really matter whether we call it a thought experiment, a theory, a hypothesis or a fairy story? Quibbling over the label we use to describe it...

Ah, it seems I have mis-spoken. Again. Oh well, let's try to put things right. :wink: You could be responding to one of two things, and I'm not sure w...

OK, I chose the word unwisely. Instead of "plausible" I should've said "possible". Don't start me off! I acknowledge no such burden. Like everyone els...

I mean: how will you justify this "moving on"? I'm asking for a formal, logically constructed and argued, justification. Yes, absolutely. But I'm not ...

And I have met weak people who struggle to lift 100 pounds above their heads. I am one of them. Am I deficient? No, but like everyone else, I have a c...

Yes, it could, but we must just hope that the global financial system can be kept working, or that a better alternative to it can be found before disa...

To ignore serious threats is worrying indeed. But nuclear war is moving down the threat list, and has been for some years. Higher up are chemical weap...

Hmm. I don't know. But I will also observe that general interest in politics is low, but it has always been so. Maybe all 'hard' subjects are unpopula...

:up: highlighting.] When you put it that way, it sounds quite reasonable. But Harry didn't (put it that way). He did not and does not wonder if gender...

I am attempting, in my own small way, to encourage courtesy. But I can't force someone else to be courteous, and I can't force anyone else to think co...

No, not me! :smile: :smile: :smile:

Social pressure is not reasonable or rational. It's red in tooth and claw, if I can steal a phrase from elsewhere. :wink: If we approve of it, we call...

Not because you're focusing on it, but because you're trying to break it.

Now that is a creative way of stating it! Harry has repeatedly denounced and condemned (I use those terms after careful consideration) trans-gender pe...

Does anybody understand Wittgenstein? :wink: :razz:

Then they are entitled to be addressed accordingly. ... As long as they really are "deserving of that rank". :chin: :chin: :chin:

I probably wouldn't do it. But why do you concentrate so heavily on breaking courtesy? It's not a difficult thing to do. But it is counter-productive....

To start with, almost nothing dictates language use. In this topic, we are (I think) discussing how people request others to address them in a particu...

A lot of points in few words. :smile: Let's start on replying to them: Does philosophy have a 'methodology', as science does (the scientific method, a...

But how do we justify, logically, this "moving on"? Please quantify your emotional assertions with some logic. Place a numerical value - and justify i...

So we both use the term to denote a "particular rank (or similar)", as I wrote. :up: But you are no more God than you are a Lord of the land, so you w...

I don't think so, no.

I had to DuckDuckGo it before I worked it out. :up: :smile:

It is? I imagine this certainty applies to about the same degree that your impression of living in objective reality does. A solipsist believes some v...

And I might observe that, as you say, lord describes a particular rank (or similar), and you don't hold that rank. It would not be offensive for you t...

I asked for a (logical) justification for your beliefs, but you have just explained what they are (again), and - with refreshing honesty :smile: - bee...

I'm sorry, but I don't see it. And your words don't seem to be helping me do so. What we do with no-evidence-theories is an element of the logical and...

If you don't know the answer to your question, there's little point in my explaining. Courtesy is a two-way thing, as I said, and it requires a little...

Courtesy is a two-way thing. It requires 'decent' behaviour from all parties. So you, being courteous, would not make such an unreasonable request of ...

That would get my vote too. :up: I only used the term "nonsense" because @timwood used it first, and I repeated his term. I am questioning several pos...

To expand the discussion to "worldview" is making matters murkier, I think. To respect the way an individual chooses to be addressed is common courtes...

The precedent is long-established. When I fill in a form, real or online, it asks me what title I prefer to use. It's for me to decide, not Mary.

It's the difference between John choosing the title she is addressed by, and Mary choosing the title by which John must be called. Would Mary be happy...

So I can't be called by the title of my choice if Mary objects? What business is it of hers? I'm not harming anyone with my request, so what's the pro...

So, in the context of this discussion, how do we tell what is nonsense and what is not? That's rather the core of this discussion. How do we tell, log...

If you think this topic is unsuitable for discussion, please say so, and say why. Otherwise.... :roll: This topic is not about solipsism. It's about h...

Why (is it worthy of further discussion)? Do these claims cause harm? No. Do they mislead or deceive? No. Does it matter at all if I, biologically mal...

Yes, they are, and that's the odd thing. We humans live much of our lives in the Conscious World. Note to scienists: that is not a literal statement. ...

And so they may, but the entire multiverse, if there is such a thing, is part of the Physical World. Did you think it literally referred to a single w...

Then perhaps we should not try to address Her as though she has 'scientific' existence? God exists; Harry Potter exists; Judi Dench exists. But not al...

Ooo! :worry: That's a statement of The One and Only Truth, if I ever saw one. :meh:

Interesting how some of the replies try to address the (possible) non-literal meanings the phrases might carry. :up: :smile: Disappointing, but not su...

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Ah, OK. :up: Yes, we're humans, with no direct access to Objective Reality, and so on, and so forth. :wink: Of course we assume stuff; we can do nothi...