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On the first quote, I don't think this is particularly helpful, either given that we have absolutely no knowledge of what "a soul" or "soul" is, let alone who has one, who hasn't one, what its characteristics and/or properties are. Women could have completely different souls or identical souls, we have no idea. Telling them they don't have soul isn't likely to advance any discussion an inch, though.

You know, Greg, that may be either true, "true" or True but it's certainly something that is guaranteed to elicit a negative reaction from women, particularly in this case where you're attempting to take Weininger's intellectual argument -- "this is Largely or Mostly True when discussing women" -- and apply to Rev Smooth who pretty obviously sees herself as being in a completely separate category.

What Rev Smooth was doing, as far as I can see, was attempting to jam me into her own construct: the genders are interchangeable, some people are smarter than others but it has nothing to do with gender, hey, Dave Sim you seem pretty smart let's see if you can metaphorically "tear me a new one" in intellectual debate. Convince me of your point of view.

Greg Shantz wrote:Somewhat related, on the question of women having souls, Dave Sim said:

On the first quote, I don't think this is particularly helpful, either given that we have absolutely no knowledge of what "a soul" or "soul" is, let alone who has one, who hasn't one, what its characteristics and/or properties are. Women could have completely different souls or identical souls, we have no idea. Telling them they don't have soul isn't likely to advance any discussion an inch, though.

I wonder what Weininger would say to that!

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