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This didn't answer my question. Sure there is. Wrong. There are many of blacks that make more than many whites combined. If Breeona Taylor was white, ...
September 09, 2020 at 10:51
Right, so some govt. showing preferential treatment based on one's skin color would entail systemic racism. But then isnt that what affirmative action...
September 08, 2020 at 11:05
Then what use is a dictionary? Is not a dictionary a use of words within a certain context, like defining the meaning of words? And I already showed t...
September 08, 2020 at 10:28
We would also have to know what knowing is to say that there are things that we know and things that we don't. We must also know how to use language i...
September 07, 2020 at 20:08
But that's the problem - trying to separate it from the world. We typically understand things based on their effects on the rest of the world or the r...
September 07, 2020 at 18:26
But the propositions are part of this reality that is represented. They are composed of visual scribbles and sounds that we observe, just like the the...
September 07, 2020 at 13:29
In: Privilege  — view comment
If they never actually stipulated what white privilege is then how can anyone agree or disagree with it? It doesn't follow that you could agree with i...
September 06, 2020 at 12:56
In: Privilege  — view comment
Pathetic. and now you're cherry-picking my posts and purposely misconstruing what I said. You're an exemplary example of what happens when sheep are i...
September 05, 2020 at 11:49
In: Privilege  — view comment
Then what evidence did you have for asserting this: if not some statistics? If you don't have anything to back it up, like statistics, then your whole...
September 04, 2020 at 10:15
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If only it were true that whites aren't injured because they are white. I already showed that blacks commit hate crimes at higher rates relative to th...
September 03, 2020 at 10:17
The "levels" are actually different views of the same thing. One view is of the genes, the other is of the organism, but we're still talking about you...
September 02, 2020 at 17:28
Different fields of science deal with different levels of reality, like genetics and physiology. One doesn't use the same terms as another because we'...
September 02, 2020 at 10:23
And use is an effect of intent. No intent,, no use. But then some things can't be used how you intend because of how it was designed. Why can't the os...
September 01, 2020 at 10:39
But ostriches still use their wings for other purposes like mating displays. We often use things for which the object wasnt initially, or primarily, d...
August 31, 2020 at 10:32
In: Privilege  — view comment
If you're upsetting a group of people that share the same skin color, then does that not qualify as oppressing them? If you're not talking about takin...
August 29, 2020 at 13:13
In: Privilege  — view comment
You mean like having to deal with a lack of fathers in the home and high rate of black-on-black crime? As if whites don't have problems that non-white...
August 29, 2020 at 02:51
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Again, present your notion of privilege so that I might actually be uncomfortable with how your using it.
August 29, 2020 at 02:39
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Apply this same logic to talking about men and women in a way that makes a trans person uncomfortable. Its nice to see that you've come around to real...
August 28, 2020 at 10:20
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What privilege do I have that Oprah Winfrey doesn't have? And would you agree that Oprah has privileges that I don't have? https://www.nydailynews.com...
August 27, 2020 at 10:46
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Its a very poor example. Privilege would be you getting to use the elevator while I have to use the stairs. Stairs is not a privilege. The elevator is...
August 27, 2020 at 10:34
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First, there is a scientific grounding of race. Second, cultural differences aren't important when hiring someone or giving them a raise. Third, what ...
August 26, 2020 at 10:03
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That's not surprising given that privilege is subjective. One person's privilege is another person's taboo. We all don't value the same things, so wha...
August 24, 2020 at 10:18
Seems to me that you answered your own question in your OP. The phenotype is determined by not just the genotype, but by the environment as well. Thin...
August 22, 2020 at 11:53
Strange. Is it not true that you just used a collection of symbols to point to the truth and reality of the relationship between symbols and what is t...
August 22, 2020 at 11:32
Thats strange because you just wrote about subjectivity objectively, just as we can talk about some property of rocks being unique and a defining feat...
August 21, 2020 at 10:17
Exactly. Thats essentially the nature of politics and religion. These two branches of philosophy (they're actually part of the same branch, IMO) are w...
August 20, 2020 at 10:36
If humans are objects, then having subjective experiences is being real as an object. It would be a defining property of a the object, human. Our subj...
August 20, 2020 at 10:21
A dragonfly may have 30 with their eyes to head ratio being much larger than other animals, but the ratio of brain-size with humans is much larger. So...
August 19, 2020 at 10:31
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I think it has to do with the rate of low quality vs good quality. SLX might be close to the bannable rate but hasn't yet crossed it. Funny how people...
August 19, 2020 at 10:16
Correct. And I disagreed and said that a subject is an object. Dreams are real states for some objects - like humans.
August 19, 2020 at 10:07
No. A subject is an object.
August 19, 2020 at 00:54
It depends on what we're talking about. Are we talking about the experience or what the experience is about. Experiences are real, but what they are a...
August 18, 2020 at 18:24
When the lights are out, all you experience is black with no shapes. Black is a color, no? Seems to me that that could be done with just two colors - ...
August 18, 2020 at 10:45
Illusions are real. They cause us to behave differently. They are a misinterpretation of sensory data. What they are interpreted as isnt real until yo...
August 17, 2020 at 11:26
But what is the difference between the information that pops out vs the information that doesnt if not a difference in wavelength? What is it that is ...
August 17, 2020 at 10:24
And that we can see them. How do you know that our experience of seeing other people and how they behave is the same?
August 17, 2020 at 10:15
Roflmao. Language use is part of our physiology. Sounds physiological to me when you're taking about a species and its social behaviors.
August 17, 2020 at 10:12
Agreed. Doubt comes from the logical understanding that all of your imagined predictions can't be true at once. There is the way the world is and a wa...
August 16, 2020 at 12:35
Just as we use our fingers to point we use language to point. So it's more like our communal pointing to a colored experience. The OP is asking how do...
August 16, 2020 at 12:28
What meaning or purpose does the existence of an afterlife provide? So are other animals. What makes humans special complicated poop machines in that ...
August 15, 2020 at 12:15
I don't know about guaranteeing, but logic and rationality are the best methods we have in comparison with other methods for "guaranteeing truth", lik...
August 15, 2020 at 11:39
Here is the definition of "origin" from Merriam-Webster: Origin: 1 ANCESTRY, PARENTAGE 2 a :rise, beginning, or derivation from a source b :the point ...
August 15, 2020 at 11:32
According to Joe Biden, all blacks think alike, and the only way to get you to vote for him is to choose a black person as VP. The problem is seeing s...
August 13, 2020 at 10:19
The Democrat strategy is to play the sex/race card. Narrowing your picks based on sex and race will severely limit your choices if you're also trying ...
August 12, 2020 at 02:44
What does "purely physical" even mean? Are you saying that the universe is partly physical and partly something else? How can the physical interact wi...
August 06, 2020 at 11:24
Then you haven't told me what the self is, only what refers to the self. Harry Hindu and TheMadFool are just another scribble that refers to some self...
August 06, 2020 at 11:05
The self is a letter of the alphabet? Or are you saying that the self is but another thought? Are thoughts about stuff that aren"t thoughts?
August 05, 2020 at 18:26
What do you mean by "self"? The mind, the body, the brain? Is a fly aware of its body, but not its mind or brain? Then you're taking about awareness. ...
August 05, 2020 at 08:25
Both inductive and deductive reasoning make use those three fundamental rules of thought that I mentioned. My point was that there are many rules of l...
August 05, 2020 at 01:54
Then what do you mean by "consciousness"?
August 05, 2020 at 01:18