I'm surprised that nobody has answered it, because I believe it is very simple. Perhaps you didn't ask it quite as directly before.Whats the difference? I've asked this several times. If was so easy and obvious then why can't anyone answer the question? — Harry Hindu
Sure, if they want to.So in a gender neutral school the girls will play on the varsity tackle football team or wrestling team with the boys? — Harry Hindu
I would not presume to tell the person anything, as I am not in a position to understand their experience, much less give them advice. It has to be acknowledged that in some cases gender dysphoria of the sort you mention can come into conflict with de Beauvoir's vision of feminism, and this has caused some distress on both sides. So it behoves us to proceed carefully in areas that are vulnerable to that conflict. But I think it is possible to work to dismantle societal gender expectations without having to enter that conflict zone.a transgender woman (a man claiming to be a woman) does call those things feminine. It is the only way they know how to express their womanhood. Are you telling the trans person that those things are not characteristics of womanhood? — Harry Hindu
I assume you mean 'sex' rather than 'gender' here.Consider a high school senior who is a 300 lb linebacker. I don't think anyone wonders what this student's gender is. How does this conversation relate to him? — frank
Yes, if 'journey' is used to refer only to the passings of waypoints in S, rather than the usual meaning of the whole path Y, that is central to where Zeno goes wrong.the usual notion that a journey must have a beginning (the journey presumably being the sequence of distances travelled in their usual ordering) is not in play. — fdrake
I think this has even more problems than (1). The term 'task' is dragged up out of nowhere, with no clear meaning or relation to the problem. Nor is any support provided for the claim that we cannot do an infinite task - a claim that seems very unintuitive to me.Do you think your response also addresses the case where we replace (1) with (2):
(2) The number of distances travelled is infinite, and we cannot do an infinite task. — fdrake
'Series', like 'sequence' is a technical mathematical term. Usually it is used to describe the sequence of partial sums of a sequence, although sometimes it is used just as a synonym for 'sequence'. Either way, as we observed above that since the set of events S is not a sequence, under the natural order, neither is it a series.It’s a series of events with no start and so cannot be started. — Michael
I see it as getting stuck on the first horn - that goodness is whatever God does or wants done, so if that is killing all the first-borns then that is 'good'.Would you agree that simply stating that God = Goodness is a tautology and not an answer to the Euthyphro dilemma? — Walter Pound
'Sequential' is the problem word here. I would say that passing in order is not sequential, because the events are not sequential if we use the usual meaning of being in order-preserving bijection with the natural numbers.I’m saying that passing in order is a sequential series of events with no start and so cannot be started. — Michael
I chose to use the word 'passing' rather than 'counting', with intent. There is a critical difference between 'counting' and 'passing'.But this is just like saying that the single act of counting all members of S is the single act of counting the rationals from 0 to 1. — Michael
Proving that there is no smallest will do it. Like this: Assume there is a smallest, call it x. Then x must equal 2^-M for some M. But 2^-(M+1) is less than that and is also in S, which contradicts our assumption that x was the smallest. Hence there can be no smallest.How exactly could one show that one can’t start counting each rational number between 0 and 1 from smallest to largest? — Michael
The single act of passing all members of S is the single act of traversing track Y from A to B. In doing so, object O will pass each member, in order. The act starts at time 0 with object O at location A.if there is no smallest then the act of passing each member cannot start — Michael
I agree with the first point. For the second point, we need to be careful about what we mean by 'sequentially'. If we mean that we pass through x before y iff x<y then there's no problem. If we take a different meaning of 'sequentially' I suspect we are going to get another dubious, controversial assumption.Because if space is infinitely divisible then there exists such a subset and if motion is continuous then it must pass through each member sequentially — Michael
Thinking about this leads me to what I think is a fairly precise mathematical statement of the controversial assumption that Zeno's argument makes. It is this:If I want to count in order the 1/(2n) numbers between 0 and 1, which is the first number I count? If I want to move from 0m to 1m which is the first 1/(2n)m distance I pass through? There isn't one, and if there isn't a first step the task cannot start. — Michael
This replaces one word, whose meaning we are wondering about, by a list of words: kind, loving, impartial, fair, just."God wills something because he is good. That is to say what Plato called 'The Good' just is the moral nature of God himself. God is, by nature, loving, kind, impartial, fair, just and so on. — Walter Pound
Because, while the logical discipline that he had developed was sufficient to identify the flaw in Zeno's reasoning, Aristotle did not spot how that could be done. So he instead opted for a much more elaborate and philosophically controversial approach.Why do you think Aristotle invented potential infinite to get out of the paradox? — Walter Pound
Do people claim to be gender neutral?They who claim to be gender neutral are probably lying, quite possibly to themselves as well as to others. — Bitter Crank
[Italicisation by Peterson. Bolding and underlining by me.]The authors are claiming that men who socialize their boys in a traditional manner destroy their mental health. — Jordan Peterson
That is not always possible. The quote function on this platform is unreliable and intermittently fails in some combinations of browsers and operating systems.1. A reply which doesn't make proper use of the quote function. — S
I feel that if the nativism is applied selectively then it is nativism mixed with bigotry. Arguing against myself, I concede that a dark skin is the most easily detected indicator of not being indigenous in Wales. An accent is another easy indicator. If the author was raised in India, I presume she has an accent that is easily identified as non-welsh. My first wondering from that is whether equal discrimination would be applied against a white person with an RP voice, a cockney or a scouser. Possibly it would be. I have heard tales of Welsh having resentment against English visitors, especially when they are only there for long weekends and holidays, in their seaside cottage that is empty the rest of the time.It's not just a cloak for racism, it's that and also a legitimate nativism. — unenlightened
I think the occasional Randians that turn up here do us all a great service. It provides a rare topic on which people that have been having blazing rows about other issues like abortion, materialism or proper nouns, can all agree and recover some of the mutual warmth that may have been lost in those other theatres.It seems like a moral obligation to oppose ideas like Rand's and AppLeo's. — Bitter Crank
That reminded me of the TV series The Indian Doctor, which I greatly enjoyed. I expect you've seen it. I thought it portrayed the issues involved in a thoughtful and sensitive way. It was also interesting to see Sanjeev Bhaskar play a non-comedic role (I'd only seen him in The Kumars before that).Here, unquestionably, is an immigrant having problems with natives and native government. — unenlightened
Your 'usually' may be correct. I don't know the statistics of the case. But there are some interesting examples in the opposite direction - the Jews and the French.When people rise up to protect a cultural identity, that usually means that identity is headed for the identity-graveyard. — frank
Since you don't agree to the use of logic, there is nothing that can be discussed. I suspect this is not the best forum for you to find sympathetic ears for your beliefs.I don't agree, and i don't share this methodological approach — auto to on
Logic doesn't work like that. We are not allowed to use a name for a concept and then rely on it having all the properties and associations that it has in natural language. The only properties that a named thing has in logic are those that are given to it by formal axioms.Using the term 'domain' would obscure the intention to establish the self-containment of totality. Ex. 'Now we claim that a domain exists and it then follows that this domain shall appear within itself'. This point would be invalid by only arguing from the notion of a domain. — auto to on
Not necessarily. And for technical reasons, electric cars are much more amenable to being charged with electricity from renewable energy than most other electrically-powered devices.Isn't electricity made with coal anyway? — AppLeo
That tends to not work out so well when one has to move a sofa or a piano, let alone a household.There are only individuals. And your life is determined by your own efforts and choices — AppLeo
I am pretty confident that post is somebody's homework, and they were just trying to get somebody on the forum to do it for them. Note how it just has two questions, written in the way that homework questions usually are. It contains no thoughts, suggestions or anything to indicate that the poster has thought about or is even interested in the topic.Discussion 2:
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/4945/improving-ones-own-character
Y: What are some coherent conceptions of character?
Among conceptions of character where character is mutable and can change in a way that could be called an improvement, how is it done?
So, again 2 questions. This by a first time poster. Welcome to the forum. — Amity
I think "Plato's beard" is what we call a 'play on words' and fits in the same category as the jokeSo, how is it that we can speak about stuff like Plato having a beard or Santa Claus existing on the North Pole? — Wallows
No.Part of that critique claims that that is a sentence that nobody would ever use. That's clearly false. We're all using it. — creativesoul
That omission of the quotes on the second 'Nixon' has already been covered. Did you miss it? I said that my understanding of English usage is that quotes can be implied by the context in instances like that. If your experience leads you to conclude that is not common English usage, just mentally put quotes around the second 'Nixon', as that was my intent.You did not put forth an accurate representation of the position you're critiquing. — creativesoul
Saying that something does not make sense is a critique. The aim of the 'to me' part is to leave an open mind for a response that is able to make sense of it by explaining it better. Such a response did not occur.Here's my problem though:
You claimed that that did not make sense to you.
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How does one validly critique that which does not make sense to one? — creativesoul
No you didn't. You showed how careful punctuation plus insertion of an extra word (the word was 'named') can eliminate what looks like a contradiction. Do you deny that the difference between the two sentences you wrote in that post is more than just punctuation?I simply showed how careful punctuation can eliminate what otherwise looks like a contradiction. — creativesoul
I'm not sure what you're referring to here. My best guess is that it's my response to this: In that post you appeared to wrongly attribute to me the sentence 'Nixon might not have been Nixon' and mock it with an eye-roll icon. I asked you not to criticise me for things I didn't write. If I misunderstood your post and it was not intended for me then say so and I will gladly apologise.You critiqued my punctuation of the same string of words. You charged me with slyness regarding this same string of words... — creativesoul