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Fantastic, I think we've explored down to the nub at this point. Again, thank you for your pointed questions and follow ups. Let me pose another quest...
January 02, 2026 at 00:04
Thank you, it is always humbling to have someone read a piece of work I've written and enjoy it. I suspected this might be the source of our differenc...
January 01, 2026 at 05:24
With this question I highly encourage you to read my paper on knowledge that I linked prior. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14044/knowledge...
December 31, 2025 at 18:34
Potentially. I responded to Esse in the post above going over that idea.
December 31, 2025 at 17:47
First, I do see your viewpoint and think its a very fair question. It may be that this is a misalignment of philosophical comfort, and I understand th...
December 31, 2025 at 17:46
Fantastic exploration of how language shapes thinking. Very well written. :) Interesting but not unexpected. I too have found explaining falsifiabilit...
December 30, 2025 at 18:55
Likewise! Also, I have to compliment your mastery of the written word. Your use of higher level vocabulary in intelligible and clear in ways beyond my...
December 30, 2025 at 17:41
I tend to be more rational now as I've trained myself, but it was not always so. Early on in life I ran by intuition. If I can go from that in early c...
December 30, 2025 at 16:13
Agreed. This is more the morality of knowledge and inductions. Whereas the hierarchy of inductions is a rational evaluation, the 'morality' of what sh...
December 30, 2025 at 06:15
Banno, I have an 8 year old nephew that I've helped raise. Now he's an excitable little fella and sometimes doesn't understand social graces in public...
December 30, 2025 at 03:49
No, it notes that we can draw a necessary conclusion by examining causation. I wrote it Banno, so if you want to dispute it lets go there. Again, if y...
December 30, 2025 at 03:25
As am I. You might want to read the paper that I linked in this instance. No, that's not what I'm stating. I stated that if we examine the entirety of...
December 30, 2025 at 01:25
No, causation ultimately leads to a necessary conclusion. My ultimate point is not to claim causation was necessary. In fact the opposite. It is neces...
December 30, 2025 at 01:01
I think I see your issue now. To be clear, my conclusion does not violate the intelligibility of what exists. My conclusion is only noting the full sc...
December 30, 2025 at 00:58
Its impossible to know with our current understanding. What I can claim with 100% confidence is that logically, either way, there is no cause which ex...
December 29, 2025 at 19:38
One minor suggestion to your own definition. I would remove the term 'arbitrarily'. It may be arbitrary, but it might not. Other than that, I think th...
December 29, 2025 at 16:21
Thank you for the polite and well written inquiry! It is rare to not get angry pushback. Not that you have to agree with me as this continues, it is j...
December 29, 2025 at 15:48
Fantastic to hear. I admit to some concern when this thread continued and you hadn't posted for a while. Glad you're in a better head space.
December 29, 2025 at 03:33
My intention at that point is to note that there can be no logical reason for contingent reality. In the case where one reaches the end of the causal ...
December 29, 2025 at 03:27
My hope is it can help you with those practical goals. An idea, even if it is correct, is no good if it cannot be practically used. Thank you for the ...
December 28, 2025 at 22:48
It is so refreshing to hear someone who read and understand the premises! Correct. I see what you are saying, but let me counter that slightly. The sc...
December 28, 2025 at 22:44
Neat project. You might want to read here. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14044/knowledge-and-induction-within-your-self-context/p1 I set o...
December 28, 2025 at 15:11
No. I go over why here. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15722/the-logic-of-a-universal-origin-and-meaning/p1 Essentially the universe is unc...
December 28, 2025 at 15:02
I agree that rehabilitation is normally the best solution. I think we're fundamentally viewing hate as a different thing. Hate is an emotional motivat...
December 26, 2025 at 20:59
I like this ideal as well. I believe that most people fall under this category. However the reality is that there are some evil and selfish people out...
December 26, 2025 at 18:52
Fantastic post. Hatred is a desire to eliminate something no matter what value it may have to others. All three. You can feel the fires of hatred yet ...
December 25, 2025 at 22:13
The cries of those who cannot counter a very simple point. Questioner is an example of what people on this board should be like. We disagree on some f...
December 25, 2025 at 13:24
I don't want to get stuck on this as these points they were making to other people were never intended as directed at you. The main post of this was t...
December 25, 2025 at 06:42
No, that is incorrect. Innate and unlearned behaviors are obviously from the brain. The question of course is how much is associated with the brain vs...
December 24, 2025 at 23:24
My apologies, using it as a search engine is fine. I do not use ChatGPT very often so I was unaware what that referenced. Fair, but you didn't say the...
December 24, 2025 at 15:02
For kids it can be a little more difficult if someone specifically dressed up a boy or a girl to disguise them, but even at that age its not very diff...
December 24, 2025 at 14:23
Your source has https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091302211000252?utm_source=chatgpt.com <- You need to be reading your own pape...
December 24, 2025 at 05:06
Please do better than chatgpt again. You need to make sure to include sexual orientation in your findings. To my knowledge, most of your papers are de...
December 24, 2025 at 01:34
I don't know. What it does seem to imply is that sexual orientation is not a processing issue, its an innate brain function. The problem of course is ...
December 24, 2025 at 00:49
First, my apologies for all these separate posts on your topics, I'm catching up from vacation. I have a major issue with this need to never say anyth...
December 23, 2025 at 23:47
No, there is a way of feeling like a man. Its sexual. I can grow a beard. I pee a certain way. I have more strength naturally. Its entirely 100% biolo...
December 23, 2025 at 23:19
I actually don't. I think there are trans sexuals who desire the biological average sex expectations of the opposite sex, and I think desiring that an...
December 23, 2025 at 23:12
To be clear, anything biological that fits a sex expectation is not gender. Gender is ONLY sociological, and I think this is where the confusion comes...
December 23, 2025 at 23:08
Back from vacation. Seems like some good conversations happened while I was away. To be clear we mean woman by sex, not gender. And I will not use "wo...
December 23, 2025 at 22:56
Before you judge, most of us knew the OP from past posts. Darkness had not been doing well. His post was not coming from a purely intellectual place o...
December 23, 2025 at 06:47
Absolutely. Especially among children and adolescents. My advice is to seek more points of view than you've currently seen. Everything I'm advocating ...
December 18, 2025 at 21:30
Ah, I'm glad you entered back into the conversation with more information, but you have to understand that I can't keep track of everyone's view of id...
December 18, 2025 at 21:11
The common definition is that a woman is an adult human female, and a man is an adult human male. It is a biological referent, not a sociological one....
December 18, 2025 at 19:41
Women are subjects, not objects. Again, a person is not an object, but a subject. Unless you're talking English grammar? In which case we're talking a...
December 18, 2025 at 19:38
Enough about the strawman. If you're not going to discuss the OP anymore, I'm not going to have a never ending go around on this that isn't introducin...
December 18, 2025 at 18:11
Completely? Can you clarify what you mean? Its a version of sexism as sex is always involved. Maybe my answers below will help clarify what I mean. It...
December 18, 2025 at 18:00
A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, ...
December 18, 2025 at 15:41
Welcome back Questioner! Remember that my definition of gender is aligned with gender theory and you have not shown any credible evidence or argument ...
December 18, 2025 at 03:42
Thank you! That's a rare compliment. Also thank you for drilling into it more, its good to test it further. I am not saying holding a gender or gender...
December 18, 2025 at 03:35
But gender is based on sex. Its a belief that a person should act in a certain way in society without regards to biological limitations. "Women should...
December 18, 2025 at 02:10