This is categorically wrong according to Indian philosophy. Culture is identified as feminine (Prakrti). Not only that, language as a whole is identified with the feminine principle. Activity & power (Shakti) are also feminine. Nature is feminine, but culture is part of it.https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/1002584728770400256 …
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Replying to @vakibs
There is something categorically wrong with a philosophy that ascribes genders to culture and language. (It is literally a category mistake to do so.)
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Replying to @Plinz
Are you saying that there are no cognitive, emotional or psychological differences between the sexes? Are you saying gender does not exist? If no, it makes perfect sense to project the theory of cognition on the axes separating the genders..
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Replying to @vakibs
There is a bimodal distribution of a subset of human traits that correlates with testosterone/estrogen/progesterone. It does not makes sense to pretend that the archetype that you get by extrapolating that distribution applies to things that are not animals.
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Replying to @Plinz
The hormones themselves have evolved for greater success in the quite different evolutionary strategies of male and female. But I see where you are coming from. You see intelligence and cognition as a more abstract principle than life (atleast that with sexual differentiation).
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I do not disagree with you there. I do not agree either. I am still not sure either way, if life or cognition is more fundamental. Anyways, I am talking about culture and language here. And that's just human culture. I consider fair to project these ideas over gender.
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Replying to @vakibs
In which way do culture and language have gendered traits? they are not mammals
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Replying to @Plinz
You are missing the point of symbolism and confusing it with causality. The floppy symbol on your word document indicates the save function, but doesn't mean there is a floppy disc there.
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Replying to @vakibs
Symbolism is an artistic style, not a way to serve truth.
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Replying to @Plinz
Symbolism is a way to point towards the truth. I consider that truth can only be realized, not served. Any symbolic representation, any theory, even any algorithmic process.. they can only capture the truth partially and hint at how to go forwards. Never capture truth completely.
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There is probably a ground truth (a particular way in which things are). We can only approximate the shape of the space of theories that could explain it. But there are rules for that, we are not free to gesticulate wildly.
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