RegularGuy

So then a metaphysics of gender is ultimately doomed to failure? My intuitive sense is that a person identifies as a certain gender because of their e...

Will you two speak English? Y’all are too smart for me.

:lol: I guess it is weird when you put it that way! I don’t really know what enlightenment is actually. I was trying to give some comfort to Wallows.

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I take it on faith that I’m not a brain in a vat or an AI in a simulation. It’s my opinion.

Conceptualization is not a relationship between concept and subject, but it is the act of forming a mental model, the concept itself. The mental model...

I sympathize with this point of view.

:lol: Perhaps I’m projecting my mind into his.

The way I understand it is that concepts have meaning, and it’s not a matter of using a correct concept, but of using a concept correctly.

Yes, Donald Trump is a pussy. :up:

This is a good point. Harkens back to the epigram “Life is a journey.” If Siddhartha had not experienced the extremes, would he have attained enlighte...

This makes sense to me.

I didn’t mean to offend you. I value your contributions to the threads I’ve encountered you in. My personal approach is that OR is modeled by observin...

Yeah, I should’ve gone a while back, too. I let it get to the point that I can feel my pulse in my tooth. :grimace:

Funny you mention that. I have an appointment to get a molar pulled tomorrow morning.

Haha! You sound cool.

Good on you. I don’t let a fear of bullying about my mental disorder stop me from being open about it, so I can relate on some level.

This is over my head. I suspect I’m not the only one confused about it, though.

That was my intuition as well. It’s weird, I think, but who am I to judge? I suppose one could live one’s life this way, but I think it just invites b...

What does “gender fluid” even mean?

So if there are ‘jumps’ from one discrete state to another, what does that say about causality? It seems that at the quantum level, cause and effect b...

Yes.

And don’t underestimate the capacity of a moron to fuck things up.

This made me think of something. Is there a Planck length of relative motion or time as there is a Planck length in spacial extension? If not, then wh...

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Yes, she is my muse and my oracle. :smile:

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No problem. It’s not my axe to grind.

Do you hang out with any feminists? Do you use “he” instead of “one” or “he or she”?

Are you a computer programmer? You should learn code if you’re not. I never met someone so logical linguistically.

But you do conform more than you don’t. However, you do conform less than most around here, so I guess that’s the problem with communicating with you.

Perhaps the problem is in the sheer rarity of such people? If they had a large army, and if everyone had one as a neighbor, then things might be diffe...

It seems to me that you model reality differently than I, which can lead to problems with philosophical discussions. However, I’m not sure that your m...

Yes, which was my point about using concepts in unique and novel ways in certain language games. However, that was one concept. It didn’t appear that ...

Do you get my meaning? If so, then what’s the problem? If not, then I’m not using the term correctly, and that’s why this communication is failing. He...

“Correct” as in that it works. A concept’s use is correct when used in a way that people understand one another.

I agree with you. If Terrapin is a man by gender than I will call him “he”. If Judith is gender fluid then I will call them “they” if that’s what they...

I don’t even know what we are arguing about anymore. This is way off topic, anyway, and I’m not even sure we would necessarily end up disagreeing with...

There are correct uses of concepts determined by a community of users. If the users didn’t have a general correct use for concepts, then communication...

I’m claiming that’s how it works in practice. That that is how it works in practice is a true description.

Yes, I guessed that was part of the joke.

It’s not an argument. It’s a description.

Community involvement, yes. Concepts can evolve or even change meaning or gain new meaning, but it ultimately depends on a community of users. Sometim...

I figured it was a “Hey, Joe” reference, but I wasn’t sure if he was joking about there being an incident.

From psychologists on the news.

This is now far afield of the OP, but I will just say that the vast majority of concepts have generally true or false values. Communication fails when...

Clinically mentally ill people are more likely to get hurt by others than to hurt people intentionally themselves, unless in self defense or defense o...

You actually make sense here, but I must politely disagree. Concepts have generally true or false values, otherwise communication would fail more ofte...