If you substitute 'psychologists' for 'naive scientists' it becomes apparent that personal construct theory is a meta-theory of psychology. It concern...
I watch them like a fucking hawk. Otherwise you end up believing in better, and thinking your worth it, and that your house is full of nasty germs and...
I agree. I disagree. Having been brought up watching the Simpsons, I conclude that my skin is not yellow enough, and I have too many fingers. Can I ge...
Yes it is. moderators here are unpaid volunteers, and they don't catch everything. It is an art anyway, not a science, because one has to have an eye ...
Your suggestion does not appeal to the intellect. Philosophers are also humans and like to socialise and go off topic. If there were not suitable plac...
Thank you for engaging with me on this; I'm not used to it. I am not saying that brains are all exactly alike. I am not saying that they are not affec...
A hurricane forms, storms about here and there making its presence felt, and then dissipates and loses its identity. There is no problem for a materia...
I just watched White Noise last night, and now this. I was struck by the close similarity posed between Hitler and Elvis. The mass adoration. And the ...
Thus there is much resistance to someone who undermines identity by denying the dichotomies: human not animal, white not black, male not female, and s...
Indeed. I have never thought of it quite like that, but yes. Or I could say that narrative identity is always fiction. Or if you can stand the Freudia...
The confusion continues. Try it like this: instead of "if" always use "if in a possible world" Then one can say "If in a possible world Hesperus didn'...
"The sensation of heat" they say, as if there were only one. The heat one feels on a hot day is not exactly like the heat one feels coming from a radi...
Pardon me, but it seems to me that this locution is misleading; as soon as the word 'if' appears, you are talking about a possible world, but then you...
I prescribe carbon neutrality, all round. This is a case where it becomes absolutely clear that treating the individual is unable to get at the pathog...
That's not irony, that's normal procedure. The irony is that you think it supports the probity and social independence of psychology. See here, for an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_liberation First the campaign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967 Then the law change. Then the ...
I want to be picky, because it affects the direction I would like to turn us towards. It is ubiquitous, it is universally instilled from birth, but it...
I think the class 'mental illness' is a social construct, as I already said. This means that there is no fact of the matter such that anything is or i...
I am a moral realist of sorts, but I think the moral certainty of some moral positions being taken up here is dangerous. But I am not a mental illness...
You just happen to be wrong about this. It used to be a crime to commit acts of sodomy; now it is not, here in the UK. It used to be a very very serio...
This is not a fact of nature, it's a social construct. this is demonstrated by the fact that you already pointed out that what is and isn't a mental h...
Therefore, insofar as the topic is positive essential characteristics of females, there is nothing to be said. Any positivity is a social construct, a...
I'll make a bold claim, that some might want to dispute, (but I hope not) in an attempt to establish some semi solid ground for the debate: "It is no ...
My instincts are different. 'Thou shalt not be icky' is indeed a powerful commandment, but at the same time, anyone who does not conform to extremely ...
I'm not happy with your disgust. This is just a tad suspect. It is a mental health condition. Alien limb syndrome is not treated by surgery, and gener...
Fuck off, frankly. Numbering claims does not make them more tenable, and giving a random hypothesis a fancy name does not add to its credibility. Star...
Indeed it is, and the horse equally, (or a little bit more, hopefully,) is pulling the cart, and the tension of pulling is the relation that makes som...
The opposite is the case. things are secondary and intuited from their relations. Look and you can see it is the case How do you come to know the natu...
Relations are actual. I get my 3 ducks in a row; their relation is being "in a row". That's an actual row of existing ducks, but not 'three ducks and ...
Superman might have taken on a different secret identity - Lois Lane, even. But in such case, Lois Lane would not be the woman we know who loves Super...
Relations are actual. For example, my relation to my identity card is that I do not have one. Your relation to my identity card is blithe assumption t...
"I had to, it's my job as a film critic." The well known 'jobsworth' defence. Have you heard of a device called a mirror? It's like a 'someone else', ...
If the SS say you're a Jew, it really doesn't make much difference what you feel, say, or do. Just get in the cattle truck. Psychiatrists, social work...
It's all about original sin. Whether you Adam and Eve it or not, ever since, fig leaves have been de rigueur. It is mandated to hide the crucial aspec...
If birds could speak, we would not understand them, but the homeless we could understand if we cared to. The last line diminished the story, and so fa...
I'm already looking forward to the Christmas special. It's the mark of great writing that it always leaves you wanting more. Or was that cooking, I fo...
Read this, and sang this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX3ll_cCkqg There is a necessary incompleteness to the notion of valuelessness - of rubbish....
It may be because I have been co-opted as a proof-reader for Mrs un's writing, but a missing letter is so distracting as to spoil the reading experien...
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