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In other words, you'd be saying that they have the meaning wrong. But that's just what they're saying--that you have the meaning wrong. So when I ask ...

No one is saying that gender and biological sex are the same thing. The whole point is that they're not the same thing. They can differ. You can feel ...

If we're screening for criminals/known terrorists/associates, then you'd need papers--otherwise, if people didn't need papers, we'd not be able to scr...

Try in various ways to explain how alternatives make sense to me, via various ways of characterizing, detailing what I'm talking about, what propertie...

What sort of evidence would there be for anything being morally wrong, though? And as I explained earlier, it's conflating different senses of "opinio...

That could be (re Russell saying something similar). My idea could have been influenced from him--Russell is my favorite philosopher overall and I fir...

That seems like a false dichotomy. We can and do simply use the term for a psychological notion, which has obvious influences from social norms.

Does that reflect what's going on in the heads of the relevant folks, though?

I'd have to clarify what the scope of "motivated by" would be, but in general, no--I'm simply claiming that moral judgments, or whatever we want to ca...

I already said that in my view it's not conceivable. That you think it is doesn't help me.

If someone thinks it's not conceivable that there's a sheep in a field without it being painted blue, I wouldn't say that they're making an assumption...

Insofar as we're talking about anything mental. Aside from that, obviously the properties are not going to be human-independent.

"Before you can do this". We understand that we're not talking about the preconditions for anything, right? I don't know why you went back to "imagini...

No idea what you're saying here.

What's the non-local part in this case?

I'm just trying to clarify your definitions here: if not-P is inconceivable to S, is P an "assumption" on S's part? In other words, for any claim wher...

So if you can be conscious of a desire, wouldn't that just be local, and not "localized non-local"?

At the moment, I don't at all care what they're derived from--I'm not asking you about that. You agree that "x is derived from y" doesn't imply "x is ...

"Derived from the non-local" isn't at all something I'm asking you about. I'm not asking you about derivation. I'm asking about desires, say, qua desi...

I'm not asking you about necessary preconditions or anything like that. I'm just asking you about imaginings, desires, emotions, etc. per se.

Okay, so I want to talk about imaginings, desires, etc. qua imaginings, desires, etc. The identical stuff. Not related stuff. Let's stick to the very ...

Whoa--way too much writing as a response. I didn't read that because it's getting away form the conversation. I wanted you to answer the questions I a...

ELP's "Knife Edge" is derived from Janacek's Sinfonietta. Is "Knife Edge" the same as Sinfonietta?

' "Derived from" is different than "is," no? Peanut butter is derived from peanuts. Is peanut butter the same thing as peanuts?

Ah--and I just noticed that you said NOT a product of mind. (I overlooked the "not" because it's so weird ;-) ) So you don't believe that imagining is...

That's what I'm saying. Something that's a product of mind. That's not non-local if the location we're talking about is mind.

Again, I'm not saying that anything is a contradiction. I'm saying I can't make any sense of it. If you don't care to try to explain it so that I coul...

To me it always seemed like when toddlers believe that they and/or other things disappear when they cover their eyes or hide under a blanket. It seems...

Thoughts, imaginings, desires, emotions, etc.

Can't you be conscious of things that are mental-only? That wouldn't be the non-local.

If there's no social norm element to it, it's not clear how anyone would feel that they're different than their biological sex, because however they f...

Is conception a la idealism a correlative fact in your view, or is it what objects are? In other words, are you saying that one might be an idealist w...

What part of your initial post do you believe addresses anything I said?

So where do we look to check what the things are that are universally valuable to humans, where that value is independent of human opinion?

Okay. You should probably keep responding to me then.

I don't post in order to get a response. I post because I have something I want to say. It's up to you if you're interested and want to respond. I cou...

You can claim all the rules you want. The fact that you'd expect anyone to abide by them just because you claimed them is comical.

So in response to this: "How can someone like a transgender claim gender to be innate if gender is a social construction?" Re what I just wrote: "Clai...

Psychological and social, yes. Different from biological sex. There's nothing to debate, really. People can feel they are different than their biologi...

Ontic simple = basically it doesn't reduce to something else ontologically. An ontic simple is an "elementary particle" of sorts for ontology in gener...

I was using "argue" informally there. I just meant "If you want to say that they're not abstracts." Re "they are what they are," that's what I'm getti...

There's a very simple refutation to all of these sorts of arguments: If it's possible for something with property x to exist, whatever property x migh...

I don't think it's necessarily a monotheistic god, necessarily an omnipotent god, etc.

I think so. And that's different than them all achieving it in the same exact way.

I'm saying that a system of measurement and rules are abstracts. If you want to argue that they're not abstracts, that's fine, but I'd just ask what p...

Isn't that only if one accepts particular definitions?

In general, the only immigration restrictions I'd have, anywhere in the world, would be that I'm okay with screening for wanted criminals or people wi...

Was anyone in the thread going "Rah! Rah! Democrats"? I haven't read every post so I don't know.

In the thought experiment, especially given the stipulation that no one knows where land is, I think the best approach would be a bunch of small boats...

In my opinion, it should be a combo of: * Acquiring general knowledge/familiarity with culture, in a very broad, varied regard * Acquiring critical th...