The problem with giving necessary and sufficient conditions for something that answers to a concept that has not been created by stipulation is that i...
Yes, it applies to that which can be buried. However, 'performance art' could be captured on film and the film could be dug up. Would they think it wa...
But you're still assessing the arguer, not the argument. Presumably if a creationist makes an argument for creationism, you're going to dismiss it bec...
Gibberish. You've not answered my questions. You haven't read McTaggart, have you? So you don't know about the philosophy of time (for philosophy of t...
Here's a rough and ready test for art that I am simply putting out there for discussion: if future archaeologists dug it up, would they consider it a ...
Why not just stick to assessing arguments rather than worrying whether the arguer is an expert or not? That is, why not just consult your reason? I th...
You've yet to present a single argument for your position. Clearly the content of the OP doesn't interest you - you don't address anything in it. And ...
Oh, thanks for confirming that for me! (What you actually mean, by the way, is 'phew - now I know what relativism means - thank you Bartricks for clar...
Again: explain how the twin example provides support for relativism about time. You have yet to do so. That is, show me that you are not guilty of the...
I think I've been very clear. I want to know how the twin case is supposed to provide us with evidence that time is relative. For it seems to me that ...
The word 'can' is ambiguous. I was talking about what is metaphysically possible, not what is medically possible. If sex is constitutively determined ...
What you've said isn't quite what I said. Whether chromosomal change is or is not necessary for sex change to have occurred is partly what's under deb...
right. So we can't conclude anything about the nature of time from the example. All the example illustrates is that two people can acquire equally jus...
You are just reasoning fallaciously. This is valid: 1. If p, then q 2. P 3. Therefore q This (how you are reasoning) is not: 1. If p, then q 2. Q 3. T...
but again, you seem to be confusing epistemological possibilities with metaphysical ones. Two people can be equally justified in believing contradicto...
So this is not a point about reality, or time, but about justified beliefs, yes? When my twin travels away from me, it seems to me that he is getting ...
Again, just a bunch of assertions, not an argument. They're all demonstrably false too. I take it you agree that your body was created from a sperm an...
Er, no. I've watched youtube videos on it and they are no different to listening to one of you - that is, they seem as confused as someone who thinks ...
Er, no, it really isn't. I don't see why I should as it really isn't hard to think in such terms. But anyway, I did. And then you said one was station...
Hahaha, so you DO think time goes more slowly in fridges?! It has been demonstrated conclusively that apples decay more slowly in fridges. The apple i...
Er, I did. And then you said both move. What I want to know is why physicists think it tells us something interesting about time. Because it seems to ...
Doesn't matter - same point applies. They both speed away and then come back together, yes? THey won't both be older than each other, will they? So, w...
The original set up is that one is stationary and the other travels away at a constant speed, yes? And they turn around and travel back, yes? And the ...
We're agreed, though, that the apple in the fridge isn't travelling through time slower though, yes? Time doesn't run slower in fridges, or faster at ...
Again, one of those - mine - is an a priori truth of reason. Or do you think that it makes sense that a mental state could exist absent an object that...
Well done for not engaging with what I said. Has time passed more slowly for the apple in the fridge? If 'no' (and obviously the answer is 'no'), what...
This thread is not about whether it is good or bad to change your sex, or whether you have a right to do so, but about whether it is 'possible' to do ...
First, your view - that chromosomal structure is essential to sex - is implausible. And extremely implausible when applied to the issues that divide p...
why do you think the chromosomal structure of your cells is the crucial thing? I have no idea what chromosomal structure my cells have (I've never ins...
So now we're back to the "if you had your sex changed on Tuesday, it was not changed on Thursday" kind of point. That is to say, a pointless point. On...
That's just not true. First, nature doesn't 'decide' anything (nature isn't a person). And second, the whole point is that it is not 'disguising', but...
You said that sex changes are artificial - well a) they're not necessarily artificial and b) that's a pointless observation. It is 'as' pointless a po...
Again, more pointless observations. Me: you can change your sex. You: yes, but if you change your sex on a Wednesday, you didn't change it on a Tuesda...
Where did I say that? I don't think you know what the words you are using really mean. You earlier said that you cannot turn a pig's ear into a silk p...
That's both false and a pointless observation if true. It is false because from the fact a person's sex can be changed it does not follow of necessity...
They're both wrong, and you're wrong. We can change internal features as surely as we can change external ones. So if sex is constitutively determined...
Yes you can, it's just tremendously difficult and probably beyond our technical know-how at the moment. For with sufficient changes you could turn a s...
Your argument was a) not a version of my argument (you represented it to be), b) not sound, c) flagrantly question begging. The only similarity betwee...
You're contradicting yourself. If you can change your sex - and I've argued you can, and you've accepted that you can - then the change is not artific...
And your point is? First, this thread isn't about race, but sex. But anyway, all you've done is said some things, not defended anything. The fact is t...
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