Michael

If there are no adequate detransition studies then how can you claim that detransitioning is a significant problem? So a subreddit membership count is...

What do you mean by this? Are you just saying that it's impossible to change one's DNA? Nobody is saying otherwise. You're attacking a strawman. Women...

What does being transgender have to do with gay men? https://www.gendergp.com/detransition-facts/ You think the 0.4% of trans people who detransition ...

What are you concerned about? Transgender women just wanting to use women’s bathrooms, or men pretending to be women as an excuse to use women’s bathr...

There’s 46,XX/46,XY chimerism.

I still don't know what you mean by "normal". Do you mean "appropriate"? Probably not. But then I also don't think it's appropriate for someone dresse...

That's drag queens, not transgenderism. And I'm not sure what you mean by normal. It's certainly not common, as drag queens are a minority.

What’s the problem? Maybe my legal name is Michael but I prefer to go by a different name. Asking you to call me by this other name isn’t asking for s...

Such as?

According to the SEP article on Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues:

Northerners pronounce is "dance". Southerners pronounce it "dahnce".

I do. I assume you do to. This is an ambiguous question. In the context of the phrase "male-to-female", it means a transgender woman born with male ge...

Well, it's not a proof, but it is a valid argument.

They’re only horses if they’re from the Horse Peninsula region of Australia, otherwise they’re just sparkling cows.

Then I'm not sure what you're trying to argue. If determinism is true then either I do this or I do that, and then either you punish or reward me for ...

I think many arguments in favour of God do this. The claim is that something like the God of Christianity exists, and when asked to prove it they only...

What does it mean to be held responsible for choices made?

We generally understand what MTF and FTM mean in the context of transgenderism so this seems like a pointless argument.

Let Gx mean "x is God" and Fx mean "x created the world" (or anything else). ?xGx ? ?x?Fx ??x?Fx ? ?xGx Proof But given that ??x?Fx ? ?x?Fx is valid, ...

Yes, I've already argued with others that Anselm's argument is invalid. I'm now trying to find the strongest kind of ontological argument. It's a more...

For the sake of argument I'm using the more simplistic definition "the demiurge of all possible worlds".

The question then is whether or not there is a satisfactory definition of God of which both ¬??xGx ? ??xGx and ??xGx are true. The second premise is t...

A simpler reformulation of the previous. Either it is not possible that God exists or it is necessary that God exists It is possible that God exists T...

??p ? ?p is valid. This is given as a premise, not an inference. It’s either true or false. If I gave this argument, would you reply by saying that 1)...

I think it’s interpreting this as an inference rather than as a premise: ?xGx ? ??xGx

Given the definition of “maximal greatness” as being necessarily “maximally excellent”, the argument is ?? ?xGx? ??xGx. It is possible that something ...

I don’t know how accurate that website is at parsing modal logics, but my understanding is that modal ontological arguments are commonly accepted to b...

The greatest conceivable vampire is. A vampire that exists is greater than a vampire that doesn’t exist. A vampire that necessarily exists is greater ...

Yes, they mean the same thing. Then the argument is invalid. To make your argument more precise: 1. If there exists something which is TTWNGCBC then t...

I think the modal ontological argument is a much stronger target of discussion. 1. If God exists then it is necessary that God exists 2. It is possibl...

How does 2 differ from 3? Because the conclusion doesn't follow. You would need an additional premise such as: 1. If there exists something which is T...

Then the argument is: 1. If there exists something which is TTWNGCBC then this thing necessarily exists 2. If there exists something which is TTWNGCBC...

You're misunderstanding the logic. Look at existential quantification. I'll be more explicit with my terms to make this clearer: 1. If there exists so...

Then this begs the question, as the second premise just asserts that God exists.

If some X is TTWNGCBC then X necessarily exists If some X is TTWNGCBC then X is God If some X is God then X necessarily exists Therefore, God (necessa...

1), 2), 3) is simplified to: a) If some X is TTWNGCBC then X necessarily exists Given 4), replace "TTWNGCBC" with "God": b) If some X is God then X ne...

I'm starting to suspect that ChatGPT might be an AI language model.

That needs to be demonstrated. Disproving determinism isn’t sufficient.

John claims that humans can run at 30mph. Jane claims that humans cannot run at 30mph because the fastest a human can run is 25mph. Joe demonstrates t...

I don't quite get the issue. We seem to understand what we mean when we ask whether or not ghosts or aliens or tachyons exist.

That’s fine. The point is that showing that determinism is false isn’t showing that free will is possible. The libertarian needs to explain what free ...

If our actions are the consequence of quantum indeterminacy then they are the result of random chance, not free choice.

Senate Republicans (except Murkowski and Collins) blocked the Equal Rights Amendment. The Amendment:

Then as an example, free will (according to the libertarian) is incompatible with both determinism and quantum indeterminacy. A demonstration that qua...

It might be that free will is impossible if either determinism or some other X is true. A demonstration that determinism is false isn’t a demonstratio...

Unless it's drag shows or transgender health care or abortion or critical race theory.

:brow: Have you ever actually spoken to @"Hanover"?

One of these is true: 1. I conceive of and this entity doesn't exist 2. I conceive of and this entity exists The thing conceived (as shown in brackets...

Your argument appears to be: 1. If God exists then God necessarily exists 2. Therefore, God (necessarily) exists The conclusion doesn't follow.

I'm as old as people tell me I look. Recently that's been as low as 21, but I think they were being polite. Usually it's ~24.