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Presumably though you have feet that are of a certain dimension. This is just one illustration of your existence and Harry Potter's non-existence. One...

Thank heavens there is at least one woman here to keep things grounded.

I guess that depends on whether he is a man's man, or a ladies' man.

This is a secondary effect.

No one has ever had to convince me to get a boner. It's a biological response.

The phenomenon you are citing has more to do with status and competition than sexual attraction. Sex appeal has a very real basis in biology.

But it doesn't say. What is the teleology directing a woman's beauty?

Then what is behind your assertion that "the pregnant body of a woman isn't meant to be beautiful"?

Do you know the difference between beauty and sexual appeal?

I'm not sure I understand. Judging beauty by reference to race seems obviously racist to me. How can you avoid the racism in a statement like, "that w...

If Harry Potter exists, then tell me, what size shoes does he wear?

An exception would be natural history. There is a history of nature that is independent of the records we create.

God is an advocate for my point of view. God prefers me over others. God believes in my worth and virtuosity, especially when others do not.

We are able to speak about imaginary objects because language transcends reality. I think the error you are making is that you are confusing the possi...

Um, well are you saying that she's ugly because she's a black woman? If so, then I think you might be guilty on both counts.

Right there is the elephant in the room. But that is hardly surprising since most sports were created to showcase male abilities. So what (if anything...

Not a little bird, but a big mean Gyrfalcon.

Not on closer inspection. Except maybe the outlying ones mentioned by

That ad is too funny. The other factor to remember is that Riggs was well over the hill at the time of his match with King. It was perhaps more illust...

Don't deny it. You also are clearly in love with Hillary.

you are clearly repressing your sexual attraction for Serena.

Interesting. There is also a long history of the "battle of the sexes" in tennis (e.g. the Bobby Riggs vs. Billy Jean King match) that may still perva...

Sexual selection is only one factor contributing to sexual dimorphism. Consider most bird-of-prey species: the female is significantly larger than the...

The beauty in the photo, to me, is found in its candour about the female body. Most published photos of women depict an airbrushed, photoshopped disto...

I don't know what his motivations were. I don't know that even he understands his motivations. I do think it is a strange thing for him to be so opini...

That's an understatement. The photograph of Serena on the cover of Vanity Fair has an almost identical composition to the photo of a 7-month pregnant ...

Okay, so I think we are in agreement that your historical facts have at least some relevance to the question in issue whereas my breakfast habits do n...

But as a person of some influence, will not others put weight on his comments, even if they shouldn't?

We agree that consistency is not sufficient for confirmation, however you seem to be arguing that the fact that I ate cereal for breakfast is equally ...

That I ate cereal for breakfast is consistent with McEnroe's statements. The additional facts adduced by you are relevant to the question at issue in ...

So, allegedly the best thing we have to assess the claim is evidence that is consistent with the claim. Isn't that the essence of confirmation? (Weak ...

Do I understand you to be saying that these additional facts confirm McEnroe's comments? Given historical gender roles, are McEnroe's statements colou...

If I'm confined to a hotel room with my son, and he wants to turn the television up loudly, and I want to read a book in silence, isn't that a persona...

You lost me on the remark about judges being psychopaths. No doubt the law relies on deterrence, but I don't think that is quite the same thing as ope...

Or caused by two parties each of whom want something, and the things that they want are mutually exclusive or otherwise incompatible.

Juridical law and physical law are obviously two completely different and unrelated topics. I understood this thread to be directed to questions about...

Skepticism. I would have predicted Humanism.

Some other comments have already alluded to this, but theological agnosticism does not entail metaphysical agnosticism. It may be worth mentioning tha...

I agree that pragmatism does reflect something of the ingenuity and intellectual frugality that formerly differentiated America from some of its cultu...

I appreciate the point you are making here, but is not the latter view something more akin to instrumentalism? Strictly speaking, "fictional truth" is...

You are free to disregard any particular law if you think that obedience to it is a voluntary game, and you are prepared to live with the consequences...

My thoughts exactly. Congress has the exclusive authority to make a declaration of war. Philosophically we can easily see the justification for it. Th...

It's obviously a complicated topic, but I think you're on the right track. The democratic rule of law provides not only for the authority to regulate ...

Pragmatism is a uniquely American contribution to philosophy that was first articulated in the latter part of the 1800's and the early part of the 190...

There is some tendency to invoke human rights indiscriminately by individuals who believe they have been treated unfairly. As a legal concept, however...

We owe a duty of fidelity to those groups with whom we share thick moral relationships (e.g. family, friends, and core communities). To apply the obli...

... from a logical point of view.

To my way of thinking, bias is rooted in self-preservation and vested interests. Once a person has committed to something, be it an idea, a social gro...

Must we postulate brute facts? Can we not more modestly admit that reasoning commences with foundational axioms?

In my submission, it would be vastly better if all arms traffickers could admit that there is something wrong with what they are doing.