Harry Hindu

AND, if "gender" is the different roles the sexes take on and are considered the norm for that culture, AND you are also saying those rules can and sh...

Gender IS related to sex. It is the cultural norms we expect each sex to follow. Cultural norms differ across cultures and over time. Sex does not. No...

What do we do in the case of schizophrenics and anorexics? We try to change the mind because that is where we know the problem is located. Not only th...

Human beings are known for their wide range of adaptable behaviors. But they are still limited by one's body and shape. A man can never bring an infan...

Nonsense. Only women can have be pregnant and have babies. That is a result of their physical features and how those physical features give rise to ce...

This is total nonsense. We categorize bodies all the time. How do you think we make distinctions between species and between sexes of the various spec...

So then why do we point out to schizophrenics that they have a mental condition and that their hallucinations aren't real? Why aren't we concerned abo...

It doesn't make it more confusing. There are males and females. Then there are the ways that they behave in some social structure based on their physi...

That is just another name for "fear of the unknown". Religious people experience this and is part of the reason they just accept their beliefs based o...

Yet we question orher people's feelings and understanding all the time and that isn't considered taboo. It is the result of fear. Christians fail to q...

It seems to me that one's physical state and reproductive functions have a drastic effect on the socisl roles we play. It seems to me that making a di...

Those that accuse me of being a hater, bigot, transgenderphobe, or just implying that I am trampling on someone's rights when I question the validity ...

Again, its not about equal rights. Its about the soundness of claims being made. Schizophrenics have equal rights, however that doesn't require me to ...

Affirming and reinforcing someone's delusions is the same as lying to them. Now, who is the hater?

Uh, no. We don't treat all CLAIMS that people make equally. No one ever questions the validity of what it is that they are actually saying when a man ...

So, its NOT harmful to encorage someone's delusions to the point where they allow a doctor to cut them up on a surgical table for profit?

The point is that being a man or a woman is not a mental state-of-affairs. It is a physical and behavioral state-of-affairs. This is why raising your ...

What this statement implies is that a woman is a mental state-of-affairs and a man is a physical state-of-affairs and that one can placed inside anoth...

Meaning is the relationship between cause and effect. Tree rings (the effect) mean the age of the tree because of how the tree grows throughout the ye...

Well, which is it? Is philosophy a science, or is science a philosophy? The key to understanding the relationship between philosophy and science is to...

I don't see how Hawking could have meant all of philosophy and all its disciplines when he used the term. Logic is one of the disciplines a philosophy...

Is it okay for a person to behave violently, or to trample on the speaker's right of free speech, in reaction to words? I don't think so. You make a p...

The latest posts by you and Banno are great examples of how your word use refers to your mental representations because your posts are just inaccurate...

Exactly. It tells me that you mean something other than what you literally said. Whatever, bro. You think that you can talk about things without havin...

Exactly. There is a "local" test that can be made to determine which direction the arrow of space-time takes. In other words, it's all relative. I cou...

Here you are merely using a language shortcut to refer to the person. You are actually saying, "This is a picture of <insert some name here>." Obvious...

So Banno is always right. All of his claims are objective in the sense that they always refer to actual states of affairs outside his own head. Banno ...

Right, so your claims are always accurate, and you know that they are always accurate. All the claims on these forums are referring to actual states-o...

Did I not already explain that your mental image is an effect (a representation) of the the real thing? Mental images are real, just as a mirror image...

All you have to do is go back an re-read my post to see that your reply is pointless. As I stated before, your words do refer to your mental image bec...

and If words had meaning prior to any author using them, then where did words come from if they existed prior to humans? Who, or what assigned each wo...

Banno, and what is your mental image of me if not a representation of the real me? Would you be talking about me if you never met me? The only way you...

I don't see what is so difficult about that. Did you learn what "tree" refers to when you were very young when your parents pointed to a tree and said...

Why make a distinction between meaning an philosophical meaning? What I'm doing is defining meaning in a way that makes sense in all manners that we u...

Exactly. What you do with words is use them to refer to (communicate) the non-verbal contents of your mind.

I think you're confusing hearing or seeing the word, "tree" spoken or written and thinking about categories of trees. As I have said, meaning is the r...

Yes. Cause and effect. I think you might be getting it.

Okay, so it appears that you're paying attention. Excellent. If you're still having trouble connecting those dots, you might want to try answering tho...

Yes. Do you have point to make? No. Meaning is the relationship between the effect of seeing words on a screen and what caused those words to be on th...

Wrong again. Vibrating air molecules exist outside of our heads. Our brains interpret those vibrations as sounds, which only exist in our heads. In ef...

Wrong. If meaning only existed in our heads and not outside of our heads, then how does the meaning in words get from the writer or speaker's head to ...

Tree rings DO have intrinsic meaning. Humans could never have "assigned" the meaning of the tree rings as the age of the tree if the tree didn't grow ...

Perhaps you would be better named, "Banal"?

Thanks to how the tree grows throughout the year.

The context is the causal relationship. What something means is what caused it. What tree rings mean are what caused them, which is how the tree grows...

Its you that isn't reading my post. As I have already said words come in the form of visual scribbles and sounds. Hearing a word spoken is no differen...

Do you? Because all you are doing is making these half-ass attempts at doing philosophy. I have produced far more meat to chew on than you and you wan...

See what? All you did is agree with me and expand on what I already said - that we use the term "see" as a replacement for "truth" and "understanding"...

You don't think that it is interesting that we use the word "see" in such a context considering that we are visual creatures that receive most of the ...

I don't see this as a detriment to my argument for it seems to me that you could say that for any philosophical argument. So I guess you don't find an...