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Butler's given you very little to go on, clearly
How could an action be essential? That makes no sense. So you're saying there are some actions all women must perform and they all perform it in the same way? Can you give an example?Of course 2) can be false while 1) is true (which it isn't) as actions could be 'essential' (itself undefined!)
What is this 'evidence' other than hand-waving? The whole thing is 'trust me, bro'I have no idea what you mean by this. I already explained why my argument is non-circular. And you had no response. The evidence supports the premise not the conclusion. The conclusion is just a logical inference drawn from the premise.
How can an action be non-essential?How could an action be essential? That makes no sense. So you're saying there are some actions all women must perform and they all perform it in the same way? Can you give an example?
Give a non-behavioral quality that defines a gender.What is this 'evidence' other than hand-waving? The whole thing is 'trust me, bro'
You're defining gender as behavioural from the get-go...circularGive a non-behavioral quality that defines a gender.
Because no one needs to perform the same actions. Everyone acts differently. An action would only be essential if all people of a specific gender had to perform it.How can an action be non-essential?
Define 'same', define 'differently'Because no one needs to perform the same actions. Everyone acts differently. An action would only be essential if all people of a specific gender had to perform it.
Um yes, it's called making an assumption? All arguments make some assumptions, that doesn't make them circular. What you need to do is show why my assumption is false. But you can'tYou're defining gender as behavioural from the get-go...circular
There is no one action that all women must perform in order to be women.Define 'same', define 'differently'
It's not very compelling to call it an assumptionUm yes, it's called making an assumption? All arguments make some assumptions, that doesn't make them circular. What you need to do is show why my assumption is false. But you can't
It's not idiosyncratic. All "essential" means in debates about gender is that an essential quality is shared by all members of that gender.You have an idiosyncractic definition for 'essential' - justify it
I don't care? You clearly know little about logic to say something like that. No arguments lack assumptions!It's not very compelling to call it an assumption
Why does that matter?There are languages that don't even have the sex/gender distinction
Sokal didn't debunk "Theory" by arguments. He let the supposed guardians of the field debunk it themselves. So there is nothing to 'cite': the fact that the editors of Social Text took 'Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity' seriously speaks for itself.Totally false. A good argument is SOUND. It's premises and conclusion are all true and the argument is valid. Your claims about clarity have nothing to with the evalutation of arguments, only the evaluation of style. But I don't care about style. I care about ideas. Butler's ideas are true. If you want to argue against them, you'll abandon this silly sophistry about presentation. Show me a single unsound argument she makes, I dare you.
Yes, because you never read Butler.
I don't care. Most people who say that have never read them, much less understood them. Besides , why does the quality of their writing matter? Their arguments and ideas are good, that's what matters. Arguments about good or bad writing aren't relevant to philosophy. They're relevant to style guides and Composition 101 classes and such.
Nope. Sokal's arguments all sucked, and I can explain to you in detail why if you cite them. Sokal's work has almost no merit as a criticism of continental philosophy and almost everyone who actually understands postmodernism knows he's wrong.
This isn't even true by the standards of Sokal's own argument. The point was never to show that "the whole enterprise" of Theory is worthless, only to show that better peer review practices are needed, i.e. that Theorists should consult actual scientists before they make claims about science. But Butler almost never makes claims about science so your argument here isn't even relevant to their work.
There are better or worse assumptionsI don't care? You clearly know little about logic to say something like that. No arguments lack assumptions!
Because you would have to rewrite your argument and then it would run into even more bother.Why does that matter?