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Another feature this highlights is that explanations need not tell the 'whole story', whereas reductive explanations, when right, must.

Yes! That's a good way of putting it I think.

I've gotten real fucking high a few times, and it has impacted how I think about things, but I would never believe that the intuitions and sensations ...

I'm glad you sorted this out. For a sketch of reductionism, my take on it anyway: I understand an explanation; of X by Y; as an asymmetric epistemic r...

I don't think capitalism ended?

I just wonder why you'd reject that homo sapiens (and our minds) are descended from our homo ancestors (and their minds), when you're so happy to acce...

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You're speaking like the classification of humans as a hominid is an arbitrary one. As if the grouping of organisms into families is not evidence base...

You are not addressing it, yes, you are bracketing it as if it's irrelevant. I don't believe it is as you emphasise: an importance of non-reduction. W...

This is so lazy. I think you're speaking from a place of ignorance about how science studies humanity. I read a paper about traumatic stress yesterday...

Are you sure you're not over emphasising the role of sensate values by basing your worldview off of experiences of revelation? You seem fundamentally ...

But you do think they're over emphasised in our understanding of the true nature of reality? I do not. (1) A human mind requires its associated human ...

I can guess what you believe, but I don't think you'd ever publicly assent to any of it. (1) Reality is a collective idea, everything in it is an idea...

Actually yeah it does. Catholicism is an old religion with a storied history, it's worldwide, commonly accepted, has had professional theologians for ...

So, charitably, you argue in a way in which you do not seek to demonstrate the truth of your beliefs to others. You use the trappings of rational argu...

L. Ron Hubbard is a recognized luminary of Scientology, a profound expert on the practice of dianetics, and articulated a fully self consistent cosmol...

You can't become an expert; cognizable, articulable understanding; on that which cannot be understood; the mystical; affective, non-articulable unders...

Yes, but you have not reasoned. There aren't domain experts on that which cannot be understood.

It's hard to criticise because it's arational, when noncognitively derived frameworks impinge; as premises, framings, inferences; on cognitively const...

I think that's a very important thing to highlight. A philosopher's worldview has dual aspects: it operates as an association of perspectives and idea...

Theology's always rubbed me the wrong way. I think if you 'let god in' to your thinking it has disastrous effects. It isn't really the god that does i...

Actually no, not once in this thread have you ever asked what I thought a social construction is. I checked. There are no questions like "fdrake what ...

So just because I find this interesting. I take a naturalistic view on social construction. That might seem like a contradiction in terms, but it's qu...

Loyalty, familiarity and appreciation of their good points are the reasons S was treated with such leeway.

Wait. Waaait. You think a person's identity is just about what they think?

Oh I get it maybe, you think gender is about anatomical/natal sex, and not just influenced by it (as part of a complicated system of bodies and social...

There's a teething period. You'll find out who you find worthwhile to engage with and who you find worthwhile to read. In my view, we don't restrict d...

Ok! How do you think someone gets an identity? Or do they just 'have' it from when they're born? And how do you think someone becomes influenced by or...

Harry, I've never thought that sex is a social construct.

I'm glad. I was also half seriously apologising for the worst sin.

Forgive me for intentionally being an idiot.

How dare you assume yeast derivatives' identity is not persistent across cultures. But point taken.

You lot who hate tribal signalling and infighting sure do have the same talking points.

I'm standing right where I was.

Maybe if I moved to Australia and kept eating marmite, the magical Australia juices would fill me with their succour and I would come to love the thic...

People don't like the taste of marmite. Therefore no one can develop a taste for marmite.

Forget about intersex people and the other proposed gender identities for now. People with male natal sex never have female natal sex. People with fem...

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Sex characteristics are associated with gender archetypes. Gender archetypes are associated with sex characteristics. Clearer?

Yeah I figured. I think it's obviously false. Though social-body interactions do obviously happen (passing/not passing and avoiding/having resultant f...

I think it's a pretty interesting philosophical issue though. There's certainly a subtext of 'so they're not really women/men! Aha!' from related disc...

Just gonna close the thread.

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I'd do the same thing with accord, socially mediated feelings of accord with one's sex characteristics etc... But point taken. You really don't care h...

I think you're privileging gender over sex; specifically, I think you're making gender conceptually dependent upon sex illegitimately, whereas sex and...

Fair enough! Maybe anyway. Sensations associated with bearing = sensations associated with felt disaccord with one's sex characteristics which are not...

No. Sex is anatomical. Gender is social. Sex and gender correlate. The processes that give someone a gender are not the same as the ones that give the...

Here you go.

Just so you know, I'm very open to the possibility of your proposed structure of the feeling, but I don't think I can take any views/sensations of dis...

So, I hope you believe that I understand what you mean by bearing. I am trying to. I'm perfectly able to imagine that being trans or gender non-confor...