Allegedly for Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess...
The US attacked Venezuela and abducted their President, and Trump has repeatedly talked about wanting to annex Greenland, which is an autonomous terri...
Just a quibble but you're misusing the term "brute facts", at least as used by Anscombe and Searle. For Anscombe, a brute fact is a fact that cannot b...
Even if you don't mean to be racist a discussion like this is going to bring out the racists, and I'd rather not have to deal with that fallout. I won...
Well, the English language as it currently exists didn't exist in ancient times, so it's no surprise that many of the words we use today didn't exist ...
I haven't abandoned anything. I am explaining that you are misrepresenting your opponents' beliefs. These are different arguments: 1. a) only those wh...
It looks like your justification for (3) is this argument: P1. Those who say that trans women are women say that because of this trans women ought be ...
I don't quite understand what (3) means, but it doesn't seem to follow from (1). So even if (3) and (4) are false, it is still the case that (1) is tr...
Sure, but the question is: should we continue with this historical separation, or ought our modern society introduce a new separation based instead on...
Yes, I alluded to this in that second post above. Given these terms: man1 = male sex man2 = male gender woman1 = female sex woman2 = female gender It ...
Well I certainly don't think that anyone who says "trans men are men" means to say "anyone who self-identifies as a man has XY chromosomes and a penis...
Carrying on from the above, it's worth pointing out that those in favour of trans rights are also often guilty of equivocation. Take the following cla...
The claim is that there is a distinction between sex and gender and that the English words "man" and "woman" are polysemic, referring either to sex or...
Here are two different claims: 1. Trans men are men 2. Under this Act, it is illegal to refuse entry to men The phrase "are men" in (1) is unambiguous...
You are misunderstanding me again. I'll try to be even clearer: P1. Michael says "trans men are men". C1. Therefore, Michael is saying (and believes) ...
With respect to "male" and "female" brains, the notion is that most biological men have a broadly similar brain structure, that most biological women ...
Is this your reasoning? P1. Men are humans with XY chromosomes, testes, a penis, etc. P2. Women are humans with XX chromosomes, ovaries, a vagina, etc...
If a phrase could possibly mean one of two things, but one of those things is utterly absurd, then unless you believe that the person who said it is s...
That's not what I've said. What I've said is that if I say "trans men are men" and you think to yourself "Michael believes that humans with XX chromos...
I suspect that for all phrases there is at least one person who has used a different interpretation to what is ordinary, but that doesn't mean that al...
So let's take an incredibly reductive approach and say that a biological man is a human with a penis and a biological woman is a human with a vagina. ...
The first three studies in a Google search disagree. Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity Transgender individuals (TIs) s...
It's really not. No person who says "trans men are men" is saying "biological women who identify as men are biological men". That the sentence starts ...
I don't understand the point of your question, but to explain why NotAristotle is wrong, let's consider all possible permutations of two coin tosses a...
Proof that he's an adult or proof that he told us that he wants to be banned? This is the proof that he told us that he wants to be banned, from the d...
Banned @"ProtagoranSocratist" because he asked us to: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/16297/i-dont-think-the-site-overall-is-very-well-desig...
It's not idiotic to believe that the word "men" only means "biological men". But if a very large number of people say things like "trans men are men" ...
Yes, some people aren't fluent in English or might not understand the distinction between sex and gender, but Philosophim isn't one of those people. H...
The sentence "trans men are men" isn't ambiguous, just as the sentences "bats are flying mammals" and "bats are used in baseball" are not ambiguous. A...
It’s very simple. Nobody who says “trans men are men” believes that biological women who identify as men are biological men. It’s absurd that this nee...
It’s common sense that there is no widespread mass psychosis about the sex organs of transgender people. This is most obvious given that these people ...
That some people suffer from psychosis does not justify your position. Common sense is sufficient to understand that most people aren’t suffering from...
Again, if you interpret the phrase “trans men are men” as “trans men are biologically male” then that’s on you. Do you honestly believe that people wh...
I think that if you interpret the phrase “trans men are men” as “trans men are biologically male” then that’s on you. Given that the sentence starts w...
I don’t think it’s anything so complicated. It’s just people thinking that words have some singular meaning. The English words “man” and “woman” can r...
A 3-sided die is rolled. If it rolls a 1 then she is woken once on Tuesday. If it rolls a 2 then she is woken once on Monday. If it rolls a 3 then she...
These are clearly different experiments: 1. If a D3 rolls a 1 then she is woken once on Tuesday, else she is woken once on Monday. 2. If a D2100 rolls...
I don't know if it's quite comparable but it reminds me of the Boltzmann brain paradox. Although the probability of a Boltzmann brain forming is vanis...
Which is true. But I believe the step from this to "therefore, my credence that this is a 1-awakening is 2\over3" is a non sequitur. This extreme exam...
So then what is this calculation using pounds and pence? I disagree that there's any ambiguity. This is an "n-sided die rolled a 1" awakening if and o...
So you're willing to commit to the conclusion that Sleeping Beauty's credence that the 2100-sided die rolled a 1 is \approx {2\over3}, i.e. she should...
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