Big agree! Only thing I would add is that bad ends come from bad beginnings.
Richard Weaver's book Ideas Have Consequences is a great examination of how the choice to reject a Realist approach to philosophy for a Nominalist one was the rejection of a coherent theory of ontology and epistemology.
Nominalism teaches that universals are purely conventional, nothing but arbitrary tags we place upon things that seem alike but are not. This is done for no other reason than pragmatic purposes and in no way reflects anything real.
As you can see thinking like this it is perfectly sensible to make such statements as "females can have penises". To the Nominalist there is nothing intrinsically real about the universal notion of femaleness, so there can be nothing intrinsically female, therefore females can be anything.
https://t.me/ThePrudentialist/56
FREE EBOOK: https://archive.org/details/richard-m-weaver-ideas-have-consequences
Richard Weaver's book Ideas Have Consequences is a great examination of how the choice to reject a Realist approach to philosophy for a Nominalist one was the rejection of a coherent theory of ontology and epistemology.
Nominalism teaches that universals are purely conventional, nothing but arbitrary tags we place upon things that seem alike but are not. This is done for no other reason than pragmatic purposes and in no way reflects anything real.
As you can see thinking like this it is perfectly sensible to make such statements as "females can have penises". To the Nominalist there is nothing intrinsically real about the universal notion of femaleness, so there can be nothing intrinsically female, therefore females can be anything.
https://t.me/ThePrudentialist/56
FREE EBOOK: https://archive.org/details/richard-m-weaver-ideas-have-consequences