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  • balderdash@lemmy.ziptoMemes@sopuli.xyzChad Diogenes
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    3 months ago

    The argument makes less sense outside of it’s context. Moore was responding to the skeptical position that we’re all in a simulation. Moore argues that this skeptical argument undermines itself: all of the language, terms and concepts which form the simulation argument are based on the sensory experience that the argument would effectively dismiss. Furthermore, any argument that we’re in a simulation is epistemologically on a par with the argument that we’re not. Therefore we should have less confidence in the skeptical argument than the common sense conclusion that we have hands.


  • balderdash@lemmy.ziptoMemes@sopuli.xyzChad Diogenes
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    3 months ago

    Reminds me of the G.E. Moore epistemological argument against universal skepticism:

    • Here is one hand,
    • And here is another.
    • There are at least two external objects in the world.
    • Therefore, an external world exists.

    Philosophy sometimes goes so far that an appeal to common sense is a breath of fresh air.















  • balderdash@lemmy.ziptoMemes@sopuli.xyzGender isn't real: it's just an idea
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    7 months ago

    The idea is that gender identity is something you’re born with but gender expression is a choice. Consider three examples:

    1. A trans person in a community that doesn’t accept them may decide to dress and act in accordance with their biological sex even though (secretly, on the inside) they have a different gender identity.
    2. Tomboys. Born as a biological female, identifies as a woman, but she expresses her gender in a way that people usually think of as being masculine.
    3. Drag/Crossdressing. You can be born as a man, identify as a man, but enjoy wearing woman’s clothes (as part of a performance on stage or just because you like it).

    Just like sex and gender are separable, gender identity and gender expression are separable.


  • balderdash@lemmy.ziptoMemes@sopuli.xyzGender isn't real: it's just an idea
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    7 months ago

    You’re running together gender and sex and then saying gender isn’t real. The reality is more nuanced.

    1 ) You’re born with your sex (biologically determined), 2) you’re also born with gender identity, and 3) the way you present your gender is called gender expression. So I can be born a biological male but have a woman gender identity and this would make me transgender. Now whether I choose to dress in masculine or feminine clothes this doesn’t change my sex or gender identity.