Sex is equally a construction put over the biology of plants too. As with people, it is the biological state of the plant which is doing sexual reprod...
You're almost there: it also the case female vaginas and male penises constructed in the mind, for the biological fact does not care whether it is fem...
So that wasn't quite my point. My point was that race wasn't biologcal, not that a category of race itself was a false belief. Categories of race may ...
I just showed that is not the case: describing the present biological states involves no reference to gender or sex. My point is precisely that bodies...
It's not even that, creativesoul. They are confusing race with biology. Race was never a biological fact, even though some people might have thought i...
I'm pointing out this is not true at all. If I describe the body parts any person has which are involved in reproduction, I make no mention of sex or ...
This is an example of the sort of underlying prejudice fdrake was talking about. What ever made the bodies in question "male" or "female?" People have...
My point is we were never talking about an all encompassing system in the first place. Rather, we were describing particular thing, in this case, the ...
I think a good response there was never any base in the first place, the arbitrary is nothing more than a ghost of imagination. There are no "arbitrar...
You appear to have said quite a lot about nothing. The OP seems to be answering the title question in speaking the title too, a rhetorical aphorism fo...
It should be beyond doubt, the contention is God is found everywhere. Metaphorically (since such a God, being everywhere, cannot have a specfic empirc...
I feel like I've been here before, but this is a pernicious myth. It is not feelings which are determining truth at any point. One's feelings are just...
But that's just the issue: if the speech is not completely, then coercion is in play. At the very least, there is the reason/shame of being mistaken, ...
It could, my point was it would have to be entirely imagined. They wouldn't have the distinction of colours or non-colours we do in our emprical obser...
Yes, but I was going for a little bit more than just oppourtuinistic defences. I'm saying, in this case, we actually have thesis no-one can make a mis...
It's probably a duck and a rabbit. I think frank missed more though. Or at least something important in the context of the discussion. I get the point...
I'd go at this from a related but different angle. All language functions in thidsmanner of talking about something. If NOS4A2's postion is taken to b...
I was going to go on a big rant about how green still had a use in an all green world, but wasn't sure I since its been dead for months. I'll just say...
You're contradicting yourself: in your first post you claimed it wasn't just a question of terms. Now your running back to an insistence others cannot...
Completely untrue. We know stuff, make claims, describe what's happening to us all the time. Our lives are filled with experiences of what's going on ...
Such "doubt" is dime-a-dozen and not at all instructive. Anyone can "doubt" quite literally anything in this way. Just see a claim, assert we don't kn...
That's why they matter in the first place: to misgender speaks an untruth about someone. Demands are made prescisly because what is thought untrue is ...
I agree you have understand states of consciousness are present. My point wasn't to suggest we didn't know they existed. Rather, it was about what the...
That's why you realise no state is given by the definition of a form. Definitions of properties are indeed imaginary. They are also necessary, since d...
Nope. A diamond is a diamond. Atoms are just some material states. They are not them all. And although a diamond may involve atoms, it is not just ato...
Neither, I'm saying there specific states of matter which are conscious experiences. There's no need for all states of matter to be conscious. All tha...
Not a worry here, since conscious instances are just another state of matter. There are states of the brain interact with other states (bodies, the en...
I missed the part where brains were nothing. Perhaps we should all put a little hatch in our skull, to use the empty space for a handy storage compart...
One must one ask what exactly we are resisting. The problem with stoic account is it assumes an adversary. In the context of nihlism, it needs us to a...
Yes, we do claim states otherwise. He outright states substance is conceived through itself. Substance is itself and also conception through itself. I...
They're also wrong if being conceived not does count as conception, since it would render Substance not a conception. In this case, Substance would no...
Spinoza is making this precise distintion to over come the problem dualism has for accounting for finite/contingent states. Substance is of a differen...
One cannot ever apply it to an individual. The mass measurement is a different order claim. If I'm talking about a certain trend of occurance in a pop...
I don't have time to respond at length, but I wanted to clarify what I meant it the last quote because it is so crucial. When I speak of the "devaluin...
I'm pointing out this is mistaken. Claiming some properties are absent when we aren't looking is commiting oneself to a presence of contingent states ...
My point was rejecting these properties is to suppose a world of a certain form (absence of these properties) exists. It's actually proposing the worl...
So the trouble with this line of argument is an absence of these properties also amounts to concepts. How can we say there are an absence of these pro...
It's descriptively wrong. Since issues of structural racism have genesis the class structure, it is a material fact that our society/class structure f...
The colourblind is a response to the idea of people gaining merit over others by identity. We ought to, according to the colourblind approach, not rec...
Spinoza's point is they are of identical reality. The a priori definition of the modes insentience and sentience in the attribute of thought are of th...
This misunderstands identity as a question of merit. Stereotyping, generalising, etc., happens when we take an identity category, such as race religio...
Spinoza's point is that the question of rational/logical grounds has been misunderstood. It is other than to that kind of transcendent account you sug...
I know... but my pointed question was directed at whether the non-innocent deserve to suffer or lose their dignity? If the only evil thing in the worl...
I find something strange going on here. What does the innocence of sentient creatures or otherwise have to to with the moral character of introducing ...
But that's the very approach Spinoza is abandoning: it is substance which justifies, not a priori mental concepts. Mental concepts are just modes in t...
Faith is gone in that context. The necessity of ground of being allows for no counterfactual. If we understand the ground of being, we know nothing is...
Modes in the attribute of thought also have to be justified in something else (substance) because there are a priori distinctions which are not part o...
Woke people are against it because the question of "individual merit" turns the value of people into a counterfactual question within racial relations...
Clearly your OP does not because it tries to assert we would use substance to define which mode was present. You've not understood Spinoza is speaking...
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