On Feb 20, 2015 12:14 PM, "Maximilian Schich" <[email protected]> wrote:
> - There no truth in art. Every artist attribution is an opinion, even if its probability is 100%. "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all Ye know on Earth, or need to know." (What's a Grecian Urn? About €1200 a month.) If the probability that S holds is 100% then it is true; if the probability is 0%, then it is false. If an opinion T is that the probability that S holds is 100%, then the probability then that S holds is based on adding that evidence to ones decision making process (the probability that T holds may be affected by other sources of evidence). > - There is a gradient, not a dualism: There are +250 versions of "not quite Rembrant", just like there are +250 versions of gender in Facebook. Their frequency is tailed. There's Rembrandt, and there's not exactly, just like there's cis-, and there's not exactly... Because of the way that cis- (as defined by Serrano (2007)) historically depends on whether a person has *ever* experienced any misalignment between their mental and physical sexes, it is not generally possible for an observer to tell if a person is cis- or not. Simon P. S. Facebook doesn't so much have 250+ values for Gender as have 250+ strings denoting a smaller number of values. They only store a single gender (identity or expression). [1] Serano, J. (2007). *Whipping girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity*. Seal Press.
