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Antirealists point out that for "The kettle is boiling" to be true, we need "The", "kettle", "is" and "boiling". And seem to stop there. But we also n...

Simply the bit where you specified in your own example that they looked at the same vase: We do this sort of thing all the time, without problem. You ...

@"Joshs" examples seem to have a common problem, which I think is the one addressed by Austin in Sense and Sensibilia. There's something very odd in s...

@"Joshs" seems to be arguing that we paint differently, therefore there are no truths. Hu?

Ok. I don't follow what you are saying here.

what, in all that, renders up anti realism? Why are there no true statements?

There are those hereabouts who propose anti realism. It might be helpful if one of those folk would clarify.

Surely, but where does his antirealism enter? One cannot conclude from the above that there are no truths. Is it a conclusion or a presumption? Thus f...

Do any of you have a clear grasp of what "closure" might be for Hilary Lawson?

What wit, we two. No, "Balls" as in that's the answer to your "What?", which can only be subsidiary to my "Who?". But since there is no truth, no argu...

balls.

Yep. The first should be "Useful for whom?" - and the realisation that it's the afore mentioned turds.

I had a scratch around, but haven't found much. Do I have to watch youtube videos? Can you point me to some text that has a bit of substance? Sure, 'T...

Well, on what I have read Lawson asserts this, but without argument. Have you seen something with a bit more substance? In the podcast, Lawson blatant...

"Map"? Language does not always map on to the world. In addition to statements and assertions, there are questions and commands and exhibitions. In ad...

Well, I had a listen to the Lawson - Searle - Dawson podcast. Searle went over the usual observations concerning realism, Dawson did not seem to have ...

What do you take “realism” to mean?

That's it.

Prigozhin had best stay away from windows.

Thus emasculating your respondents. I have a mate who owns a property near Wangaratta, drives a John Deere all day, keeps his cigs tucked in the shoul...

isn't this another example of addressing the wrong issue? It's not being trans that is wrong here, but being a rapist. Let's address the actual proble...

Two side points. How would this thread be different if it were entitled "What is a real man?" And why is sport such a fetish?

Well, perhaps the article has sown a seed, it may become apparent that chromosomes do not determine phenotype or social role, and that as a result it ...

Obvious hypostatisation, verging on anthropomorphism.

Just pointing out that such issues ought not be framed as an either/or. You're in the US? From what I've seen, you are right that there is no where en...

Hm. The thread's title is 'What is a "Woman"', but it's not about definitions. Ok. No comment as yet on the article. I look forward to your response.

I probably shouldn't address this as it serves to continue the superficial narrative, but... It ignores Aneuploidy; but that's not so important. The p...

I'm just demurring at posing a juxtaposition between trans folk and those with disabilities. We should look for mutual support rather than antagonism....

Meh. Take your brilliant ideas over to the What is a "woman" thread and show us what use they are.

Your OP was not in jest? This ridiculous thread got to five pages overnight. You must be so proud. Here's a read for all of you. It won't be that easy...

Accessible toilets are gender neutral. So here's your answer: make accessible, gender neutral toilets a norm. It's ridiculous to frame this discussion...

Love how folk just make shit up. This ontology stuff is so easy!

For many of us, it seems; the result of the Good Lord putting the playground next to the sewerage works. Evolution, of course, would never produce som...

If the issue is modesty, then design dressing rooms for modesty. Put up more dividers. You are way overthinking this. Or is "modesty" a proxy for some...

And what do you think is the issue here? What's the problem that results from folk wandering around naked? Fill it out.

We have more important issues, such as drag queens reading books to children in public libraries...

Actually, the built environment does, by differentiating the room you use based on your genitalia. One presumes that urinals are cheaper, and faster, ...

The difference between a men's and a women's lavatory is the urinal. Odd, then, don't you think, that this sort of discussion is posed as about women'...

So you posit ad hoc distinctions in order to circumvent criticisms of your hypothesis. Until now your theory has been about the whole of morality, but...

The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect The origin of the tram, and much else besides, together with Ascombe's reply.

...or to paraphrase, moral issues tend to be intractable rather than vague; and hence to treat them as tractable... is to misconstrue or even misident...

Sure, and I'll add kudos for Mark's addressing moral issues at all - it's unfashionable to even frame discussions in ethical terms, so even addressing...

Or will it increase trust, in that those who comment on the event after the fact will see pushing the large man off the bridge as showing that you can...

@"Tom Storm", et al., what do you make of this: Has Mark presented a cogent argument for this contention? Is he right?

Of course, that we desire to cooperate with each other does not imply that we ought cooperate... It's not easy...

Of course, I've done no such thing. What I have done is simply point to the is/ought distinction, and warned against taking what humans have done as e...

Free logic has wider application than just imaginary objects, addressing the difficulties you mention.

Free logic allows us to talk of things that do not exist, hence treating existence as a property.

Not a question that can have a back-of-an-envelope answer. Not least because it's not clear what that question might be asking... but with my being of...

Ah, so your account, @"Mark S", does not tell us what we should do? ...and yet "...science can provide useful instrumental (conditional) oughts for ac...