Banno

I can't use them They only work for folk who are average.

An odometer tells one how far they have gone, not how far the have left to go.

On that topic, my own odometer just clicked over to 30k.

Well... obviously.

What's with the influx of folk who joined years ago, posted twice and then submarined? Did @"Jamal" send out an email?

More on this; Gabrielle Bychowski has done some interesting research. See Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages?

Crossed two versions of that post... I'm baffled as to how.

...which I much prefer to bafflement... :confused:

Will bafflement suffice?

Yeah, I am. Maybe not in the way you expected. A person needs support to achieve some outcome if, as things stand, they are unable to achieve the goal...

Yep! Good response. And this is why, going back to the thread, answering "Is there anything that exists necessarily?" with "Yes - intelligibility" is ...

Well, it's not unintelligible... Let's set out a plausible argument so that we have it out were we can see it and talk about it. 1. The world is intel...

Yep. Is there an argument here?

Do they need support?

Yeah, I think I agree. the problem is common to the two threads. I can express it most clearly, at least for me, in terms of the difference between th...

Ok. Yet that is how your argument appears. In my , I showed that requiring an individual to exist in all worlds is a stipulated metaphysical condition...

Yep.

What does she want to do? And that 's the question to ask first, not what she can't do. How do you identify the need without knowing what Sadie wants.

Hmm. So if I've understood, the method you propose is that incapacity is identified first, then support is implemented, and capability appears only as...

This is somewhat tone deaf. It depends on making a hard distinction between the disabled and abled. Autonomy is not the absence of the need for suppor...

Not how I would have phrased it, but your diagnosis of the problem here is spot on. @"Esse Quam Videri"'s account amounts to the argument that discour...

As with a human, if a quote is given, then a citation must be provided. A human, or an AI, that quotes Pindar without giving a citation that can be re...

Now go back to your definition: Indeed. Does it help achieve autonomy? Hence, what is more important: what they can't do; or what they might do?

...and why is it so important to do whatever "P" is? And for whom is it important?

Well, no. The list of things they can't do is not the same as the list of things they are capable of doing.

And is what more important: what they can't do; or what they might do?

I don't see how to help here. If you don't see what is remiss in delimiting people in this fashion, I doubt I can show you more.

...and there it is, again.

Yep. "Close the door" Is "Close the door" true? Upon what evidence is "Close the door" accepted? How can we demonstrate "Close the door"? What right h...

So the next step is to see if you can find something that P cannot do, that would not seem to count as a disability in our offhand use of the term - f...

But So It's that the test is getting up the tree that is disabling. If the test were instead pushing the tree over... ...and stop there. The frame has...

I don't know 'bout 'Merca, but in other parts, once we gets to the new year we stays there for a bit.

At this rate, it'll be tomorrow before you get here...

Epistemology just is a domain of discourse. You couldn't complete the formalising of your argument, and I think that's because there is a mismatch bet...

Is it next year yet?

Yep - sort of. A coin (remember coins? It's how we used to do money) is just a bit of alloy, but it takes on a special role in some of our games. Ther...

Formally, there is a difference between the domain and the formation rules, and how each is used. The language is about the items in the domain, the r...

It simply depends on what you call a "thing". It's pretty clear that thinking one can apply F=ma to 7+1=8 and find the mass of = is a category mistake...

Cheers. And likewise. Good thread.

In formal logic, there is a difference between the domain of discourse - the a's, b's and c's that make up the content being discussed - and the logic...

Ok. I'll bow to the true Scotsman. Those who disagree with you have not truly understood.

@"T Clark", I htink we've answered this objection: ...Collingwood is not saying these presuppositions are true, but that they underpin the method that...

I think there is, but in terms of what we do with each rather than what they say. So Someone like @"Wayfarer" is quite right to point out that those w...

Perhaps this is right. Or perhaps what you have had to say is not so coherent as you suppose? We'd be better off talking about the ideas of these folk...

Ok - then Collingwood is not telling us what to do.

We can't. See Confirmable and influential metaphysics. That the universe is made up of only physical substances might be falsified by presenting a gho...

But I'm missing something from Collingwood. He is suggesting that were we to look at what counted as explanation, evidence, and intelligibility in cla...

Yes! Much better than having a vague and indistinct idea of 100% of the universe. But there is nothing stopping us from having another discussion, usi...

Cheers. I don't have such a strong grasp of Collingwood, so please set me to rights. You know I'm going to be critical here. There's an obvious and it...

All very good. I see you shiver with anticip...