And a symbol can be a scribble, picture, or behavior to represent the belief of the one writing scribbles, drawing pictures and behaving in certain wa...
How do you know that you are doubting anything? Can you be certain that you are doubting? As I have said before certainty and doubt go hand-in-hand. I...
You missed my point which was that we use scribbles to convey information about states-of-affairs that are not just another use of scribbles, to other...
Wait, I thought you agreed that the division of these scales was epistemological, not metaphysical. So physics, chemistry, biology and cosmology are m...
I would just add That's weird that you put it that way because I see China as more like the Confederacy and Taiwan as more like the North. After all, ...
I disagree. If doubt were fundamental then what would you be doubting if not some certainty? It seems that in order to doubt you must have some certai...
If meaning is determined by use, then something is used to accomplish some goal. What is being used if not our representation (knowledge) of reality, ...
Yeah, but how do you explain the difference between someone being knocked out and someone being awake? Where is the difference? You might point the pe...
Any knowledge we glean from other scales than the one we find ourselves living in are only useful in the scale we find ourselves living in. We only us...
Any attempt to define consciousness as some sort of illusion just pulls the rug out from under all the empirical "evidence" one has for the existence ...
Consciousness is integrated sensory information - where information from the eyes, ears, nose, skin, etc. all come together to produce the model of th...
I get what you're saying but I think that it can be argued that habitual behavior has also been selected as a trait conductive to surviving. For me, i...
No. It's actually that you have completely ignored the very nature of empiricism and how the way things are observed influences how we think about bra...
Then you typing and submitting your post is evidence of your underlying uncertainty? You seem certain of what you say, but if your admitting that your...
It seems to me that you are more concerned about what people that you don't know and have never met, and probably never will, think of you. The fact t...
No. It's an example of a slippery slope. Your faith in transgender's claims are what is being questioned here. It is very possible that some of them m...
Who is kidding who here? How does this answer my question? Both you and Michael seem to be saying that trans-genders had brain transplants at birth. A...
YOU were the one that used the term "male" to refer to someone with XX chromosomes: Why did you use the term "male" if ONLY having XX or XY makes one ...
Well, yeah. Free speech and all that. Your rights to do what you want stop at infringing on my rights to do what I want. We've all been called names w...
Like I've said twice in this thread: Biological sex is based on a combination of traits: - chromosomes (in humans, XY is male, XX female) - genitals (...
If you don't know about mental states, then doesn't that pull the rug out from under your arguments? How can you talk about something that you don't k...
Intersex people do not have an equal amount of male and female characteristics. They have mostly one or the other, therefore they would fall into one ...
Exactly. So it is our business in certain contexts and it's not really that it isnt our business in other contexts. It's just that we don't care in ot...
I have read many papers on the topic, but none of them address the question I asked you. If you could direct me to some paper that does, I'd be gratef...
It is our business when asking someone out on a date. Straights, lesbians and gays each deserve the right to know what sex they're bringing home with ...
You seem to be talking about causation where the brain causes mental states. How exactly does a physical brain produce the mental state of visual dept...
Because "God", the word, hasn't been defined in a consistent and objective way. Many people use the scribble, "God", to point to many different things...
What is naming and descriptive practices if not the use of symbols to refer to things that are not symbols (or else you'd have an infinite regress of ...
This is pretty much what I've thought and proposed on this forum too. When people claim that life or humans are an "accident", they are asserting that...
Only in 1984. Hopefully we will never come to that, but it appears that is where we are headed. Fair points made on the trans- options, but .... I was...
Well said. I thought that she would bring up the question of whether being a Jew is religious or a race. This could have then opened up a conversation...
My point was that the mind is no different than everything else in that everything is both the effect of causes and the cause of subsequent effects. T...
That's not what I asked nor does your reply answer my question as I stated it before you butchered it in your quoting of me. But this is typical of ho...
I figured that is what you would respond with but other minds are just as external to mine as tables and and trees are. I don't like using terms like ...
We don't know that objects exist either. After all, we describe objects as the relationship of smaller objects, and those smaller objects as relations...
I'm not a Republican but I say it is racist because it automatically disqualifies Asians and other minorities but doesn't seem to reject a white man i...
Gotta love how non-Americans bash America for lack of diversity when they only need to look at their own country's High Court (of Australia) to see th...
LOL, if "we" need to establish relationships with "others" that are free, then you're implying that "others" were already free prior to establishing r...
Yet all you did was redefine what dictates and commands - from "will" to "others". What is about others the makes me free when I think of others I thi...
"Dictate and command" what - the self? Are you saying that the self dictates and commands the self? What is the will in relation to what it is dictati...
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