Philosophim

Prejudice is not a reason to have unclear, conflationary, or deceptive language. Blacks used to be discriminated against, and this didn't end by prete...

Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving Banno! No problem there. I would think my viewpoint is not counter to Wittgenstein. I agree that there are two contex...

I think gender as a concept is fine. What I don't think is fine is elevating it in importance beyond what it is, which is a subjective societal prejud...

All perfectly normal. When we are born we are not precious moral agents. We are selfish, self-centered little animals that have to learn about the wor...

I agree. I also believe it is the job of philosophers to step forward when current language fails us. Fortunately that's the actual definitions used. ...

Correct. Gender has a real psychological basis. It is a culture's prejudgments or expectations of public behavior that it either believes or imposes o...

Philosophy is employed here for thinking about a topic that confuses many people. The goal of philosophy has always been to get to a clear and logical...

I think I see your point. It is true that terms hold personal meaning to us. My point with being explicit is taking that context into standard English...

Have you read the OP? I did think I made a decent argument at giving explicit meaning in the phrasing of the term. I also note that woman can take on ...

Would you like to point out any fallacies I've made Banno? Or do you think I've done a good job?

Good point, but you'll need to demonstrate that woman cannot be defined. I agree. First there's the experience of something, then we go about using wo...

As this is a philosophy board nothing is assumed to be true. If someone wants to argue what a true identity is, and why trans is one, they are more th...

If you didn't read the entire OP, then you really can't say if I missed anything or not. If you feel there's prejudice at play after reading the OP, p...

Not a worry Bob! Still good points to think about. I think I've made my points, but feel free to say anything you still need to.

And that is why this topic exists. I wanted to chat about it with other people with a philosophical viewpoint. If you want the outcomes in life that y...

I feel we're getting off topic. I'm not saying that everything we claim to be real is real. I'm just noting that thoughts and subjective experiences a...

See your consciousness is part of reality however. Everything you personally experience is objectively real. It is when we claim things about that exp...

I was a high school teacher for a few years. It is true that the older you get it seems the less comfortable people are with asking questions. If I ha...

Nope, I'm not objecting to it. Just noting that whether the universe is real or a simulation, the outlook still applies.

Lets define real. Normally 'real' means 'what is'. I don't think you're claiming that the concept doesn't exist, but you are claiming the bases for th...

Its all the dream argument ever meant. "You can't know the truth of what is outside of the realm of experience". No study about our universe will ever...

Yes, I have mulled it over repeatedly over the years and I just don't see any logical reason why a trans gendered individual deserves cross sex rights...

Great question. First, a major misunderstanding that I know I had in the beginning of the movement was I thought trans means 'trans sexual' with all t...

I think you took the wrong lesson here. We cannot make any truth claims about things we cannot know. That's all that means. No matter what we learn th...

I left because I worked more than 40 hours a week in a thankless job. I taught math and constantly told kids to get a good math based degree to make g...

This is what the majorly active part of the trans community is asking as a right. They believe that gendered actions allow one into cross sex spaces o...

No rush Bob! We all have lives outside of here. This is what I proposed earlier considering someone who is crippled or has a different hair color. It ...

True, but I understand that. There's a lot of emotion that can be wrapped up in this, and I try to have patience and guide it back to 'just thinking a...

If puberty blockers go on too long, yes you can miss windows of growth that cannot be recovered. Long term use of puberty blockers also are suspected ...

I don't know RogueAI. The current approach is to study past data more in depth and put puberty blocker use on hold until more information can be glean...

Modern day research demonstrates it seems to be medical malpractice on children. First, the research that showed kids with gender dysphoria were more ...

I confess, I should have defined this better. It only took until page 5 for someone to read the OP in seriousness and point that out. :) What I really...

Correct, but any good thinker and philosopher is not going to take the low hanging fruit. They're going to be charitable to ideas they don't like them...

Correct. Thus, the problem is solved. No being can be unlimited. The lesson is to ensure that one's definitions do not cross into impossible territory...

A nice start, but lets find the real lesson here. You've defined 3 impossible terms. Lets tweak them a bit. Omniscient - A being which knows what can ...

Be a little kind to yourself too. You're learning your way around these forums, and this post got a lot spicier than normal. Most of the posts here ar...

I much appreciate your polite contribution to the thread! Thank you for your viewpoints.

Since Leontiskos and Hypericin have finished discussing, it seems like this post has devolved into personal accusations and infighting instead of focu...

Yes. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14044/knowledge-and-induction-within-your-self-context/p1 Here is an example of how to understand knowl...

If we mean 'gender is purely a social construct' then its not crude. If we intend to tie 'gender is sex', then it is crude because then gender as a de...

Yes, a few had implied this equation, but you never did. Human and natural rights are rational moral structures apart from the law. Is yours something...

What is this human right? I personally don't mind. I had an encounter with a trans gender woman years ago in the male bathroom and it was fine. I thin...

Hello RogueAI! To bring it to the OP, do you believe that it is a human right that a person's gender allow someone to enter cross sex spaces? That if ...

That's interesting. It may be due to a difference of gender definition. For most of the life of the term gender it was a synonym for 'sex'. Probably a...

Sure, just a logic check on the claims I made in the OP. Fully ok to say, "I don't believe in X, but I see that this meets or does not meet the terms ...

I don't think I'm trying to vindicate 'belief', just note that there are several different types and/or degrees of belief. And you may be right that '...

Perhaps it would be better if we said "Type of belief". There are a few words that are generic, or cover a wide variety of contexts. "Tree" is one. Wh...

Fair enough. I don't know enough to go either way on this one. Not mutually exclusive, but which one weighs more heavily? I don't know. More than fair...

Correct. Transition is a coping strategy to deal with gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is not mere discomfort, it is life destroying discomfort. Thi...

Right. Prejudice is a 'pre judgement' about a situation. When exposed to things which demonstrate that the initial prejudice was wrong, but a person i...