Ok. Then the point is rendered moot. Of course they are. Beards, tats, body building, breast reduction... You might think of it that way. But eating i...
Nor any that it is not a cat. If you think it ambiguous, set out the ambiguity. But if instead we can agree that trans men are (often) female adult hu...
I see you added a bit. The Beetle Game Materials / Setup: Each player has a small sealed box (their “beetle box”). Inside the box is an object known o...
The difference between woman and used as a gender term and as a sexed term is not that of ambiguity. Polysemous does not mean ambiguous. So long as yo...
It's not an ambiguity. It's Polysemy. It's not that the meaning is unclear, but that there are multiple uses. And that you are choosing to prioritise ...
What gap? It's the smell of coffee. If you want phenomenology, there is no gap between my smelling that and my smelling coffee. That's the point. What...
This amounts to special pleading - deliberately ignoring those aspects that are unfavourable to your argument. There is always a personal or social co...
There can be no "what someone would hold to be true read alone without further context". Language is always embedded in life. You are simply giving pr...
Seems to me you are playing on various differing uses of "world" here. The use of "world" in modal logic is clearly set out in the formal systems that...
it is unlikely that there is a table of any sort in your brain. More likely that there are neural paths that activate when there is coffee in the air....
Banno said we are int he actual world. He also said that we can stipulate that we are talking about the actual world - a bit of semantics. We do not g...
Cool. Which was to be shown. This appears contrary to Which you accepted. That is, you are giving an unjustified primacy to one interpretation. "Ratio...
So you "have" a qual, and you run down a table of qualia and match it to the qual you previously identified as "coffee". I just smell coffee. Suppose ...
Not sure I understand. By definition, the actual world is the one we are in. Is that what you are asking? Or are you asking for proof that you are in ...
This is a metaphysical point. The other assumptions are semantic. Speaking semantically, the actual world can be stipulated. Which is just to say we c...
Where do we make use of qualia - outside of philosophy fora? Your argument seems to be: Our "cognitive makeup" is coherent; the only way it could be c...
But we have colour tables that allow us to do just that at the paint shop. ...and this makes no difference. The qual - the private experiences - do no...
Yep. Well, Wittgenstein's. I'm just parroting him. Your qual change over time but you do not notice, yet the language game continues unchanged. Theref...
We are in the actual world. Metaphysics. We might stipulate that we want to talk about the actual world, and not some other possibel world. Semantics....
Yep. So much the worse for that semiotics. Any semiotic theory that starts from inner signs is already lost. If its coherence requires the “lockstep v...
Yep. I pointed out that you are mistaken. If you actually know something, then it is by that very fact possible for you to know it. :gasp: Cute. This ...
But people do experience colours. The problem is that some folk want now to talk about ineffable private experiences of colour, instead of yellow. It'...
To be clear, that was not what was claimed. If you and I both smell coffee, it cannot be a reference to an indexical private thing, since we both smel...
Notice that we manage to name the smell of coffee and the shade of red in the paint shop, despite supposedly not being confident that your smell of co...
I don't understand. We agreed, I'd thought, that there need not be a single fundamental definition for a word, but that we might look to how a word is...
You are already in the actual world, Meta. True in model M is a bit of semantics, but true in the actual world is a bit of metaphysics. You are confus...
Yep. Nuh. That's projecting a tidy modern anatomical binary backward over extremely diverse cultures. Social categories weren’t determined by breasts ...
More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI – is human writing headed for extinction? This article mentions an essay by Umb...
To be sure, the argument here was that there are multiple ways to use "woman", all of them well founded; and that "A trans woman is a woman" is true i...
You say what now? We got us a homunculus? Somewhere inside the feedback loops of neurons there's a tiny “observer” that experiences redness and smells...
Then it's not novel, and not private. It's just smell. taste, colour... Seems your argument is that physics explains behaviour, but that given such an...
I don't see an argument. I see you asserting it. Here's the contrary again: there is a reasonable interpretation of "trans women are women" that is tr...
But here, the only basis you have for positing an internal sensation is the public response; and that has been learned and fostered over time, so that...
That's pretty hopelessly confused. As is the rest of that post. The best way to think of possible worlds is not as imagined, but as stipulated. We can...
What do you mean here? Seems that you are simply re-asserting, yet again, the primacy of one meaning for "woman" over the others. So when you say some...
The molecules are public. Good. So is the language and other behaviour. Is the difference the result of different qualia, or of differences in physiol...
Have we? Or have we co-ordinated our behaviour? What more, exactly, is there to "identifying my internal, private sensation as coffee" than is found i...
Well hang on - the aroma of coffee is not private - anything but! And a preference is not a sensation, is it? that seems odd. If anything, a preferenc...
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