They are the infinite speaker, one who is an endless series of moments speaking this infinite name. There is no ambiguity to this infinity. It's an en...
That's not an issue of the speaker because they are the one taking the action. They're always of the time of their speech. It's not technically an iss...
There is an important clarification to make there: it would require infinite moments of stating names. Someone could do it, they would just have to be...
I think "the words you say" is equivalent to content here. What we say doesn't have any relevant meaning outside the context of our language. If I am ...
We know we are rejecting the "illusion" claim of BIV logically. Our world and its interactions present to us. Whether we are caused by a brain in a va...
The objective feature is being a man or woman, that someone is of womanhood or manhood. My point issuing a man or woman is itself a feature of a perso...
I'm not talking about just individual preferences. I'm talking about a feature of a person that is womanhood or manhood. This is an objective feature ...
Finding a new answer out of question always steps beyond speculation. People ahem to commit to a position. The new answer involves taking: "XYZ is the...
You're missing the point. We could also tell; we just need the right concept of whether the BIV was there or not. My point is RL is still present in t...
To contextualise what I was saying earlier, everything stated to happen in RL here also happens in BIV account. The measure of "I am in my apartment, ...
...because recognising truth is a question of understanding what is so rather than giving arguments form evidence. Evidence is used for making specifi...
Entirely poisonous. It precludes such awareness by denying us knowledge. For us to lack knowledge, that supposes there is something we don't know, som...
I would just see one colour. Red and green remained distinguished to the world, others and even, in various conceptual senses, to me. They are disting...
Yes, really. BIV is a truth known by direct access to objective reality, like anything else. Of course, we could avoid having any concern for correctn...
If it's indistinguishable, then it is the same: the experiential world is present, the brain of my body is still there. Someone in my experience could...
BIV claims direct access to objective reality: our experiential world is caused by a brain in a vat and we can know about it. If it were true, there w...
We already know by our experiential lives we are not BIV. The events of my life, my experiences, my body, the interactions I have with other and every...
The issue is basically no situations qualify for the "no evidence" context. If we are having "theories" some sort of context of evidence is proposed. ...
The "manhood" or "womanhood" (or the "manhood and womanhood") is never going to be another's. In any case, it's a feature of an individual. I can no m...
It's not a fair point because the intolerance is defined within the very concepts being used. The moment we understand trans identity be mistaken or n...
The statement does claim membership of a set. What the statement does not claim is that others belong or are excluded from that set. In a person's fee...
That's a catergory error. I'm not you. If I want to know what you felt like, I am always going to be using my experiences. That's the entire point. Wh...
Mostly we wouldn't, but that's alright. The cause of what we know, the states which cause a particular experience, are just distinct from the presenta...
In a sense, both (assuming we are talking about trans people with dsyphoria) a sensation of a body and a realisation their body doesn't reflect this s...
That's not actually true. To know your dreams, like anything, I just need the right concept. I could know what you dreamt without you even speaking to...
Well, I was using both the contexts of references to bodies in earlier discussion and the examples of both anorexia and phobias you raised. The defini...
Delusion usually implies some sort or misread phenomenological presence in the world. Seeing something which isn't there. Supposing threats which will...
Sex and gender identities aren't claiming to be part of that sort of set either. When someone sets out such an identity, they are only speaking for th...
The issue is about bodies because that's where the charge of delusion is brought. That's why it's identified as "false" and a "delusion." Trans people...
Let me pose you a little conundrum which might have you rethinking about the usefulness of the subjective/objective split: what is the status of your ...
We already know people can fail to correctly report themselves and their identity. It even happens with sexuality and gender stuff. Some people realis...
All of which is manifestly untrue of trans people: were they to mistake for their body for something it was not, they wouldn't have a problem. If they...
Then again, some (assigned in the usual discourses) males cannot have one either. :smile: https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/congenital-bilateral-absen...
The bigotry isn't a question of specific intention. It's in the very concepts Harry is using. In taking a position trans people are deluded, they's ta...
Well, I was dealing with instances in which there were male and females. You're right. We shouldn't assume there are males and females at all. There c...
It's also this very issue of meaning at stake in the case of trans people with concerns about there body. Why do they identify with the opposite meani...
Correct, there are two groups male and female (and many more). That's given by the definition of the identity terms. We can even say that having certa...
That doesn't really help Banno's case here. Sex isn’t the body. There is a distinction between bodies, genitals, chromosomes and the use of sex catego...
They are all contingent beings, I wasn't suggesting otherwise. My reference to necessity is only in respect to their concept. In any case, the concept...
The concepts themselves are the ground of knowledge. Each concepts is necessarily expressed so grounding there is something for us to know. The world ...
Concepts must be more then ligatures of our reason. Animals might not have our reasoning ability, but they are significant in the conceptual order whi...
You were, the passive aggressivenes of the post is made on your reaction and treatment of others, not on whether your point was abuse doing the opposi...
Your post was assuming those participating in aggression were doing so out of their own paranoia and without cause. Without saying so, you are trying ...
Not that we should turn we should turn this thread to discussion of the topic, but it is deep-seated bigotry. Bigotry which goes all the way down to o...
I do because my argument is coming from exactly that sort of position. No-one "invented" the meaning of belonging to a gender or sex anymore than we d...
I would prefer Bannotastic. Oh I know, I got it first hand. He's trying though. At this point, I'm happy with such baby steps. Beats doing "truth" or ...
No one's feelings. These matters a lre a question of a logical turth/meaning. People aren't their gender or sex by a feeling or body. They are so by t...
The Sartrian account of choice isn't a question of vapid consumerist trend or even an authority to be whatever your whim might want. It's an analysis ...
The same way anything lack a particular feature: an absence of that feature. A cars lack a wheel by the absence of a wheel. I lack the name "Bitter Cr...
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