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The Australian Liberal Party has 74% men in the Australian Parliament. Their opposition, the Labour Party, has 53% men. The Liberal narrative is along...

So tell the same story in terms of frustrated potential. What did the unequal distribution of boxes lead to?

And so nothing changes.

But you put it so much more eloquently:

And in the second box?

So be charitable and assume that what was said makes sense. What is achieved by the inequity in the distribution of the boxes in the picture above?

Sure. Shame about the prose; but yeah, difference is good.

Sure. It was the "It is of no value" that bothered me. My wife's disability and her advocacy linked me up to feminism and hence to gender issues, sexu...

My apologies. I should have been clearer. Suppose I make a judgement that there is no injustice here, yet someone else claims the contrary. Is my judg...

Is your argument that feminism does not effect you, therefore it is of no value? I must be misunderstanding you. I'm more impressed by Martha Nussbaum...

No.

Yeah, sure - the usual vaguely Marxist analysis in terms of class. The Capabilities Approach is more about justice than equity. Equal is not fair. htt...

Hm. So long as the umbrella keeps the rain off, I don't see much point in the distinction.

That's an odd comparison - an individual to a movement. I don't know what capabilities you have that might have been frustrated; fatherhood, caring, f...

Is it? Dealing in terms of equity seems to me both an over-simplification and a cloud of ambiguity. How would we tell that folk were treated equally? ...

That's not for me to say. I don't know about you.

You seem to see feminism as antithetical to humanism and egalitarianism. I don't.

And this is for you to judge?

Why? Is there something problematic or unclear here?

People as a whole would benefit from displacing hyper masculinity and fragile masculinity.

Sure, but I am. Mostly. My point is the simple observation that treating everyone equally serves only to maintain existing inequities.

Here's were we came in... Collateral Murder

(Shakes head and walks away)

White middle aged middle class cis straight able males tend to call themselves egalitarian. Odd, since we generally do not act as if this were so.

From p.66; Similar accounts are given for a range of illocutions.

I'd have to find the book...

Stoped. Or at least, moved to messages.

But I did, in detail, in the N&N thread. You didn't accept it. That's not my problem.

For Wittgenstein it is use rather than explicit meaning that counts, and more general it is what one does that counts in determining as rule, not what...

SO you read it years ago, you misunderstood it, and now you are frustrated that other folk disagree with you as to that interpretation, but you will n...

Read the book.

Like houses turning into flowers. There is a way of understanding a rule that is found in the doing, not in setting out the rule explicitly. Any rule ...

This? Kripke clearly shows that reference can occur in the absence of definite descriptions. That's just wrong, as is set out in N&N.

yeah, about that... :up:

Searle presented an extended zoology of speech acts, describing a range of acts in terms of their propositional content, function and intent of the sp...

Searle?

Indeed, if what you want to do is to stay inside the bottle.

The short answer to the titular question is that it does and it is called Feminism.

But they are not. And you keep doing it. Oh, well, the mouth of the bottle is over there. Have fun.

Point is, there isn't a problem to solve. So the more one tries to solve it, the further one gets from the answer... so to speak.

Hu?

Look what they've done to my thread, Ma...

OK, so we "entertain" sentence (3). But how to do so without knowing what it means? How to you believe sentence (3) without knowing what it means? I t...

We need to understand before we assign truth, but we need to assign truth in order to understand. Provisional belief? Certainty is a specific form of ...

SO the house, long disused, is pulverised, composted and suitably arranged at its location so as to form a flowerbed.

Where? Don't worry - found it.

This might not be as obvious as it seems. Sometimes we must assume that what has been said is true in order to work out what it meant - the Principle ...

An example fo the naturalistic fallacy. That we do, does not imply that we ought.

But that's what we do.

Not my opinion.