Michael

P1. "man" means "has a penis". P2. So-and-so claims to be a man but knows that they don't have a penis. C. So-and-so is misusing the term "man". It's ...

It's valid if the conclusion follows from the premises, which it does. Of course it isn't sound because one of the premises is false. Which is exactly...

Asking what someone means when they claim to be a man is asking what it means (to them) to be a man. Coupled with your posts from before, I think you ...

That doesn't explain what he means when he says that he's a man. That just repeats that he says that. The relevant question is "what does it mean to b...

I think this is where a lot of the confusion arises. What exactly does a transgender man mean when he says that he's a man despite not having a penis?...

Just to clarify, is bivalence employing the exclusive or? I've always thought of a non-bivalent logic as one that has a distinct truth-value (e.g. nul...

The existence of O doesn't result in a contradiction. Or at least you haven't presented an argument that it does. All you've shown is that the existen...

It's irrelevant in the sense that it has no bearing on how we use language. And Wittgenstein's point was that the meaning of our words is to be found ...

That's Latin for the law of excluded middle (lit. "no third (possibility) is given").

Actually, we owe our species' survival (and current existence) to random mutations. That's how evolution via natural selection works. The problem is w...

Try to write your posts better next time. Or stop with the back-tracking and just admit to making a mistake. One of the two. If someone erroneously cl...

You didn't say that it isn't just a psychological state. You said it isn't a psychological state. My reading was accurate. If anything, your writing w...

I've read your posts:

Well, you did claim that unenlightened "erroneously claim Gay and Straight are psychological, not me.". So you seem to be saying that you disagree wit...

So is sexual orientation both physiological and psychological, or just physiological? Obviously it has something to do with the body, but does it have...

If you're saying that they're physiological, not psychological, then you're also drawing a distinction between physiology and psychology. Or if you wa...

It's OK, I'm bigger than her and know jujutsu, so I'd win in a fight.

His latest tweet: "Kim Jong Un of North Korea made a very wise and well reasoned decision. The alternative would have been both catastrophic and unacc...

I see you're pushing a "Hillary and the DNC are the Illuminati" conspiracy theory here. Yes, it's theoretically possible that Hillary suspected in 201...

I do get that. I even provided an article on GCHQ having alerted the U.S. intelligence agencies of such suspicions in 2015. I was specifically referri...

I'm pretty sure it was Mother Jones and BuzzFeed reporting on and publishing the Steele dossier that kicked the whole thing off (publicly, at least). ...

Except the accusations came from the Steele Dossier which began to be investigated in June '16, with the FBI paying Steele to continue his work in Oct...

Trump defended his delay in condemning the attack because he wanted to know all the facts first, but is very quick to condemn on initial reports that ...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that John Harris thinks of psychological states as things like being happy or sad or excited, whereas prot...

The distinction I'm making is a semantic one, and is accurate. Whether or not you believe that the terms refer to the same thing isn't relevant.

U is the assumption. O is a real possibility. We can both play this game.

No, I'm saying that the most powerful being is not necessarily an all-powerful being. It's the most powerful if nothing is more powerful than it. Just...

And I'm saying that if an omniscient being exists then U isn't possible. So your claim that U is possible begs the question by assuming that an omnisc...

Is that right? If it's partly true and partly false, and if false isn't true, then it's partly true and partly not true. And from here, "in a logic ba...

Yes, but the converse isn't true. The most powerful being might not be all-powerful. I don't understand the relevance of this question to my comment.

Extroversion is obviously going to feel fake if you're an introvert – because it would be. And introversion would be fake if you're an extrovert.

Just deleted. A single sexist comment isn't going to get you banned (unless you're a new user and your one and only post is "fuck women"). It's persis...

We usually discuss it amongst ourselves and come to an agreement.

If something is all powerful then it can do anything. If something is the most powerful then it can do more than anything else – but not necessarily a...

I think that what counts as sexism can itself be a complicated philosophical (or sociological) issue, so this question is like asking what counts as a...

Clearly not given all the insults and the like in the previous and related discussions.

It's a loaded topic and people have very strong opinions. In the same vein I'd advise against discussing religion and politics at the dinner table wit...

Personally, I'd advise against it. It won't lead anywhere good. Just more head-butting.

Because I don't know if making disparaging remarks about both men and women in general counts as sexism against both sexes or if it counts as misanthr...

Hard to say. Either you're both a misogynist and a misandrist or you're a misanthrope. Or does this amount to the same thing?

So in theory Trump isn't a rapist but in practice he is?

I'm not talking about the actual act of having sex. I'm talking about his defence. You're condemning his claim that the women wanted it, despite their...

And how is that any different to what you were saying about the women on TV?

Omnipotence is a relatively novel attribute of deities. None of the gods of polytheistic religions, for example, were claimed to have the power to do ...

An assault is just an attack. Doesn't have to be unwanted, so not a contradiction in terms. E.g. if two people consent to a street fight then it's sti...

There is if there's an omniscient being. So your argument begs the question. You have to assume that there isn't an omniscient being to claim that an ...

No, an irrational fear of homo sapiens.

And what if they say "no"? Can we just treat the words as a rejection, or do we have to consider what they think and want, and plough ahead if we thin...

Well, let's consider a hypothetical scenario where a woman wants to be groped but tells you not to grope her. Is consent (or lack thereof) defined acc...

Depends on why you believe that the men on TV secretly desire it. If it's because they're men, and you believe that men desire this kind of attention ...