(November 22, 2024 at 7:11 am)Sheldon Wrote:(November 22, 2024 at 4:56 am)Belacqua Wrote: This is basically how intersubjectivity works. You have no empirical evidence to tell you how others feel, but you can extrapolate based on your own experience.
Just because the experience is subjective, like pain for example, does not mean we cannot objectively verify its existence.
We cannot know what another person's pain is like. We assume it is the same kind of thing that we feel, because we describe it in the same way and react in the same way. This is what intersubjectivity means.
What can we do to objectively verify that pain exists other than this? (An fMRI shows that some activity is occurring, but does not tell us what the experience is like for the person having the experience.)
Quote:You are conflating the one with the other, and wrongly assuming that having a gender that differs from your biological gender is unsupported by any objective evidence, see above your claim we must rely solely on the subjective claim of the person, this is not the case.
What objective evidence do we have that an individual's gender differs from their biological sex?
For example, if a person were to make this claim, how do we verify that they are speaking the truth and not lying?
