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@"Frank", As Fitch showed, antirealists know everything that is to be known. There are no true statements outside of what an antirealist knows. Unless...

Again, a world does not consist of a set of statements. But in addition, this argument is an obvious undistributed middle. B is A, C is A, therefore B...

I'm sorry, I found that post too long and meandering to follow. If there was a core point, it escaped me. We are addressing concerns about language us...

Have another look at this. You had previously agreed that language is no algorithmic. If you need to, go back to A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs and re...

If there is something that you think I've yet to respond to, set it out. I've pointed out that even if most people would understand "woman in the wood...

I'd like to see a direct response to this from @"Philosophim", @"I like sushi", @"Outlander", @"ProtagoranSocratist", and @"Jamal" as well as @"Janus"...

A good point, so I'll address it first. I waved a hand in the direction of Charlotte Witt earlier. Here's a ChatGPT response to "Summarise Charlotte W...

I suppose it might be seen as pretty unfair on Pinker. :wink: Yes, there is a significant difference in the tasks each has at hand, and you summarise ...

I think we could stretch to one each...

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I'll stop there and re-introduce Zaachariaha Fielding. I don't know Zaachariaha personally, but I'd be very pleased if I could call him a friend. Zaac...

That presumed equivalence between qualia and colour is... unjustified. Then qualia do not act as advertised; they are not private and ineffable. You h...

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Sure. But not always. Which is enough to allow "A trans woman is a woman" in just the same way as "An ice chair is a chair". But I would not have lied...

I did this the other day, but it's easy enough to do it again. A possible world does not consist of stipulations, so much as a complete description of...

Here's an AI generated summary:

Here.

I wasn't able to follow most of that. I don't see why you think it not a fair analogy, unless you presuppose some form of essentialism. A chair must b...

And your reasoning has been repeatedly shown to be in error.

Yep. It's a curio. p??p is invalid without reflexivity.

You seem very confident about that. Fine. To me they are instances of the same sort of thing, and distinct from the sensation of that aroma. On the on...

SO you think demonstrates that it is more rational to think of "woman" as an adult human female rather than a transexual. What an odd argument. It mig...

@"Philosophim", put briefly, you have agreed that the OP is flawed, that there are indeed ways in which "A trans woman is a woman" is true, but insist...

A trivial distinction. To not recognise the smell is to not be able to place it, especially in terms of language. (Added: but moreover, this shows the...

A. See , were I show you agreeing with the line of discussion then insisting on the primacy of one definition. B. You seemed to think polysemous meant...

Yeah, I wasn't too happy with it either, but it's what is use din the literature when making this point, so I used it too. Go ahead and use your own t...

Seems to me that the notion of accessibility does just this. In a world in which p is false, not-p is indeed impossible. That is within the one world....

Yes, tot he first paragraph of your reply. If, of course, we look not to meaning but to use, those neural weightings and whatever do stuff with hands ...

If the mind computes symbolically, we'd be heading in support of Fodor and Pinker, and we really would have to conclude that all thinking is symbolic,...

Furhter, ther eis plenty in @"Hanover"'s OP that is philosophical - conceptual - rather than scientific. The nature of internal thought and language, ...

Then since you participated, we need not pay your opinion any attention. :wink: PI §329, in context, does not presume that all thought is linguistic. ...

Forcing me to move my reply from here to there. :angry:

Look again, with care. That is precisely what it does allow for - the smell is recognised, but the matching word is not: All three, depending on which...

The critique of the OP I offered was neatly summed up by @"Jamal". The OP preferenced one definition amongst many. Over a series of posts we saw that ...

Oddly irrelevant. It remains for advocates of qualia to explain what qualia add to the conversation that is not already found in our talk of sensation...

Quality OP To consider mentalese as a highly compressed language is to accept mentalese. The idea of a private mental language supposedly explains how...

Yes, and is the source of Meta's confusion. If we apply Meta's logic to the example I just gave, then because it did not snow last night in Jindabyne,...

Your posts are becoming increasingly confused. The “actual world” is not a special kind of world. It is simply this world—the world we inhabit. Every ...

Yeah. Nothing in that post deserved a reply. I was going to leave it.

Ok, so if "incidental" is too weak, I'd say "constitutive" is too strong.

If you insist that only sex counts, then of course only reasons grounded in sex will seem “viable.” But that is a choice of rule—part of how you are c...

I think you were saying what I said before: :brow: I fed your whole comment in to ChatGPT, and asked it what the paragraph in question said. So. If th...

Sure, all that. But how do qualia help here? I think that they are a red herring... And I think I've made a good fist of showing that they are not wel...

You said women don't fight. That's not so. Here it is: That appears to say that there are biological reasons that women do not fight. But women do fig...

You've laid bare your own confusion. The actual world is a possible world. The actual world is the one in which we may empirically verify statements a...

:rofl: Keep going.

Why not? Seems odd to exclude them. But whatever. Churlish. Ok. So maybe back to this: I take it that we've shown some difficulties with this paragrap...

Ok, point taken. But it remains that a transgender person may change their physiology. At the very least, provide a link.

Sure. But transgender people do change their biology. All transsexual people are transgender. Not all transgender people are transsexual. Transgender ...