Michael

There's no contradiction or paradox there. There is, however, perhaps implicit in the argument that to become a heap there must be a point at which ad...

There's only a "paradox" if you insist on the truth of contradictory premises, such as: P1. objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to the...

That tweet is basically saying "Joe Biden’s new anti-terrorism initiative classifies 'anarchist violent extremists' ... as 'domestic violent extremist...

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Why? The issue effects you as well. If transwomen (whether with or without a penis) are not allowed in women's changing rooms then they'll be in men's...

You can thank me for that, everyone. All of those likes are from when the forum first started and we had them enabled. Just enabled them again yesterd...

Anselm isn't using the mathematician's notion of "greater than" when he uses the phrase. You're equivocating. None of these are a measure of a person'...

Cardinality notwithstanding, mathematical infinity is the numerical representation of that number than which none larger can be conceived. But that's ...

Impressive. What's your method for falsifying stuff? I print the webpage, cut out the bit I want to keep, draw my change, scan the scrap, save to my l...

I don't think that Anselm was defining God as being "larger than any real or natural number." That would be a category error. When Anselm talks about ...

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Of all banned members, @"The Great Whatever" has the most likes with 53.

A relic of when the forum first started. @"Mayor of Simpleton" actually has second most.

The number under your name is the number of likes you’ve received, not your number of posts.

I think the difference is that "transsexual" mostly refers to those who medically transition, whereas "transgender" includes those who don't.

@"Jeremiah"'s various "Mathematical Conundrum or Not?" discussions were great fun.

You mean lots of rain?

e.g. in Native American culture. Or other cultures with a third gender

Trans men exhibit male patterned criminal behaviour. But what's your point?

You need a court to change your name on legal documents, but you’re free to change your name in everyday life just by telling people that that’s your ...

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. From the article you linked to, it's also the case that "female-to-males had higher crime rates than fema...

That article also says: Those with gender dysphoria are more likely to have comorbid disorders than the general population, and it is perhaps these co...

The modern sense of being transgender doesn't depend on being able to "have your breasts removed or penis inverted or go on hormones". Gender dysphori...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5944396/ --- https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/media-s-detransition-narrative-fueling-misconception...

Best I can do is a concerned "are you alright, love?"

Neither of which I think are required for the claim to be cognitive. We can make cognitive claims about events outside our light cone which cannot be ...

So you’re specifically referring to religious claims? One can believe in something like a creator deity without believing that it interferes in everyd...

Our claims about events outside our light cone are cognitive but not demonstrably true or not true. Could not theistic claims be the same?

This seems like a non-issue. Materialists are willing to accept that there is such a thing as space between two objects. It's an uncharitable interpre...

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Your mother doesn't believe that my name is Michael, which is to say that "your mother believes that my name is Michael" is false. That's different to...

Is the mind an object? Does it exist independently? Or must each mind be actualised by another mind? Is this "appearance-less essence" or "force" that...

Which means what, exactly? When you say that sex is immutable and binary, are you saying that sex chromosomes are immutable and binary? Because that's...

The atheist does not believe that there exists some X such that it is "the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the su...

Even if that were true, it doesn't follow that this "supernatural" cause is "the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; ...

Not just in the past. I recently came across this:

Also excessive. That'd be more than 18 sets of 12 reps. Better to do 3-4 sets and then do other ab exercises instead. Although I tend to just do 4 set...

Assuming summer is June, July, and August, that would require ~109 sit ups a day. That's excessive. Rest periods are essential for muscle growth.

I understand biology. You are familiar with things like heart transplants? Well consider a brain transplant. If your brain was transplanted into my bo...

I don't know what you mean by you having an alien brain. I'm saying that your brain is transplanted into a man's body. So, if anything, you have an al...

We currently don't have the technology, but it's conceivable that it's possible. So would you identify as a man or a woman if your brain was transplan...

If you had your brain transplanted into a man's body then your "entire being" would be different, as you'd now have a man's body. So would you identif...

You calling them a "wannabe" is you dictating to them their gender.

They're not dictating to you who or what you are, but you are dictating to transgender people who and what they are.

To add to this; if you (a cisgender woman) had your brain transplanted into a man's body, would you identify as a man or a woman?

Then you're talking past the transgender person. When a transgender man claims to be a man he is not claiming to have been born with a natural penis. ...

I can sort of understand that objection, but I don't think that that's Harry's objection. His objection seems to be that his definition of "woman" is ...

Not every cisgender woman ovulates and can bare children. Some transgender women have breasts and a vagina. Some transgender men have a penis and test...

So physical appearance determines whether or not one is a man or a woman? Notwithstanding individual differences, transgender men can look like cisgen...

Which means what? What does it mean to be a man and what does it mean to be a woman, and in what way are they "opposites"?