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Mutual agreement about how to use scribbles, or what the scribbles refer to? If the former, then what exactly are we agreeing on using the scribbles f...
June 01, 2025 at 13:16
For me, things are real if they possess causal power. Rocks and ideas are real because they possess causal power. You can use your ideas to change thi...
June 01, 2025 at 13:13
There is no reference if the scribbles refer to something that is not the case. One can only confirm there is a reference by making some observation a...
June 01, 2025 at 12:54
Sure, usefulness is dependent on what is real or true. For something to be useful means that there is some sense of truth attached to it. I used 99.9%...
June 01, 2025 at 12:49
The information one possesses could be memories where one used the information before and was successful in accomplishing some goal with that informat...
June 01, 2025 at 12:39
It seems to me that any proof that logic provides must be confirmed by some observation. 2 + 2 = 4 are just scribbles on a page. What do the scribbles...
June 01, 2025 at 12:25
Which is to say that gender changes over time and cultures. So if a person travels to a different culture or to a different time, does their gender ch...
May 31, 2025 at 12:43
The problem is the term, "essence". What is an essence? Is it akin to a substance? What is a substance? The issue appears to be a misuse of language, ...
May 31, 2025 at 12:28
I didn't see any pushback on this. So are we to assume that your ulterior motive here is the eradicate transgenderism by applying unisex policies acro...
May 31, 2025 at 12:12
It's not that. Michael can't seem to decide which definition of gender he is using - the biological one or the non-biological one. He is essentially m...
May 31, 2025 at 12:06
It's your argument. You're the one that needs to support it, not me. You're the one that simply accepts what your told without question. There is some...
May 31, 2025 at 12:03
It seems to me that the conversation is limited when you don't have clear definitions of what it is we are talking about. Without clear definitions we...
May 30, 2025 at 14:11
And I am asking you how it logically follows that these distinctions qualify as sexual differences if they occur across both sexes. As I have pointed ...
May 30, 2025 at 14:06
We also don't live in a world with unisex bathrooms. Abolishing clothes, or making all clothes unisex instead of having distinctly Women's clothes and...
May 30, 2025 at 13:29
Yet you keep referring to biology. I have already been over this and we are going in circles because you won't address what a non-biological gender is...
May 30, 2025 at 13:20
What behaviors are specific to a sex? Wanting to wear a dress and high heels is specific to a certain culture. The way women are expected to dress can...
May 30, 2025 at 13:12
The delusion is that there is more to being a woman than having XX Chromosomes, ovaries and vagina, or that having XX Chromosomes, ovaries and vagina ...
May 30, 2025 at 13:01
A solution would be to define what it means to be "true". Another solution would be to dispense with the word, "true" as a descriptor of knowledge. Kn...
May 30, 2025 at 12:15
Or just disperse with the notion that women should wear dresses and men should wear pants. If we did that then wearing a dress or pants would not be a...
May 30, 2025 at 11:57
Sure, when someone uses words in a way that is contradictory people will have a difficult time understanding them. Yet you assert that a trans-woman h...
May 28, 2025 at 16:58
It doesn't explain what they mean when using the terms man and woman, which is why you cant point to it in the links you provided. Really? Define esse...
May 28, 2025 at 15:02
where in these wiki links does it explain what one means when they claim to be a woman or man? What properties are we referring to and how do we know ...
May 28, 2025 at 14:40
I'm talking about the actual perverts, whether they be trans or not, entering women's bathrooms. You're still avoiding the question as to what anyone ...
May 28, 2025 at 14:35
Yet I've seen women go to the mens bathroom because the line to the women's bathroom was to long and men go into the womans bathroom to assist their e...
May 28, 2025 at 14:19
Do mountains change? Does it take time to process sensory information? Is processing sensory information a type of change? There is change and then th...
May 28, 2025 at 12:40
But wait, I thought trans-people aren't talking about their biology. :roll: contradiction after contradiction after contradiction. It's contradictions...
May 28, 2025 at 12:35
And you don't see the problem with the first thing you said and the bullet points you showed? If bathrooms are unisex then "cis-people" can use any ba...
May 28, 2025 at 12:30
How do we know how much we don't know? Isn't it possible to doubt what we do know even though what we do know is true? Isn't it possible to over-think...
May 26, 2025 at 13:53
Sounds overly complicated, like you're performing mental gymnastics here. Why are we even talking about sex in a discussion about gender if they are d...
May 26, 2025 at 13:30
You're failing to provide reasoning as to why bathrooms should be divided by gender when they have been divided by sex AND sex and gender are distinct...
May 26, 2025 at 13:16
Please, don't say that. I participate on this forum to be doubted. I participate on this forum to have my arguments criticized - logically - that I mi...
May 22, 2025 at 14:06
This is a point I made 6 years ago. Nice to see you're finally catching up.
May 22, 2025 at 14:00
Exactly. 1 and 2 establish that it would be off-topic to discuss bathrooms in a discussion about gender. You're making my argument for me. Again, what...
May 22, 2025 at 13:59
Those roles are sexist, gender-based stereotypes. Is that not clear to you?
May 22, 2025 at 13:48
What I'm saying is that if gender and sex are not the same thing, the discussing intersex is off-topic. If women's bathrooms are not exclusively for b...
May 22, 2025 at 13:44
How are they not the same thing? What is the relationship between the two?
May 22, 2025 at 13:40
You're not answering my question. Why do you group trans-people with people defined by their sex if sex and gender are separate things? You are making...
May 22, 2025 at 13:39
I'm playing along with your assertion that sex and gender are separate and showing your inconsistency in constantly going on about sex in a thread abo...
May 22, 2025 at 13:35
May 22, 2025 at 13:34
Because sex and gender are separate. So you're comparing apples and oranges, right? The men's bathroom is exclusively for men and intersex people. Wom...
May 22, 2025 at 13:32
Intersex people can use whichever bathroom they want. What does this have to do with trans-people? A vast majority of trans-people are not intersex. I...
May 22, 2025 at 13:29
Right, but if sex and gender are separate, then why isn't your rebuttal that we are off-topic rather than assume the premise that sex and gender are t...
May 22, 2025 at 13:26
You didn't. You keep bringing up intersex. What does that have to do with gender?
May 22, 2025 at 13:20
But that's the thing. Why have a discussion about bathrooms, sports, and prisons if sex and gender are separate things and bathrooms are divided by se...
May 22, 2025 at 13:18
Why did you oblige them and not just say they are off-topic? If I recall, you brought up sex earlier in the thread.
May 22, 2025 at 13:14
Did you not catch the term, "disorder"? But why are we discussing sex when gender and sex are separate? Isn't this off-topic?
May 22, 2025 at 13:12
Sure, genetic disorders can be passed down to the next generation.
May 22, 2025 at 13:10
There is a critical distinction here. We should not ignore the fact that even the smaller percent of intersex people that can have children have the s...
May 22, 2025 at 13:07
The point is that it isn't an counterexample if we go by the definition that being anything means having a majority of the traits for that thing.
May 22, 2025 at 13:01
I rephrased the question:
May 22, 2025 at 12:59