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Hi Scott, I want to refer to rule G-2, one must read all posts before replying to topic. I think everyone should have the same right to answer just the original topic post, otherwise the first poster to a topic is the only one who gets to respond to the original topic post, without influences of others, not to mention some topics have hundreds of posts. Misty
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I'd like to quit this forum and unsubscribe. Unfortunately, cannot find information where to do it.
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I'll send an email to Scott. I don't actually know, myself.

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Niebieskieucho wrote:I'd like to quit this forum and unsubscribe. Unfortunately, cannot find information where to do it.
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When are new users allowed to make posts before waiting for moderation?
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I would like to summarize the Philosophy Forums Rules by quoting the pledge of the 4H Club: "As we mingle with others, let us be diligent in labor, courteous to everyone and above all honest and fair in the game of life."
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I would like to summarize the Philosophy Forums Rules by quoting the pledge of the 4H Club: "As we mingle with others, let us be diligent in labor, courteous to everyone and above all honest and fair in the game of life."
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Dear Members of the Online Philosophy Club,

A book has been published under the title 'The Upanishads: A Study of the Original texts' by MLBD Publishers, New Delhi, India. The year of publication is 2016. There is a chapter in this book which discusses about 'The World and the Mandukya Upanishad'. Is it possible to discuss the above topic in this forum?
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I received a reply from Felix to the question I posted yesterday. He says that the topic content should be put in the Metaphysics/Religion forum. How do I send / upload the chapter for discussion in the Metaphysics forum? Could someone tell me the steps to do the same?
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I am new here. So far I am pleased with the diversity in discussion on this site. I responded to five post but my profile only shows one. How do I know if the others were rejected? Does it take a long time to review the posts and put them up? and will I be informed if I have done something against the rules? I am enjoying the site and hope to remain a participant. Thank you
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How do you edit a post? I see no edit button...
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I don't see among the rules violations of logic, violations by self-contradictions, and violations by ignoring the pointing out of self-contradictions. I also don't see violations by calling some debating opponent's arguments "irrational" and "meaningless" and "zig-zagging" when they obviously are not, to a mindful and reasonable reader.

What I am complaining about is that some people don't see their own mistakes when they are pointed out to them, and instead of acknowledging them, they call the critiquer out on being irrational and incomprehensible.

What to do in such cases?
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-1- wrote:I don't see among the rules violations of logic, violations by self-contradictions, and violations by ignoring the pointing out of self-contradictions. I also don't see violations by calling some debating opponent's arguments "irrational" and "meaningless" and "zig-zagging" when they obviously are not, to a mindful and reasonable reader.
Logic is subjective. What is logical to one may not be logical to another. It's a matter of opinion. Also, it's an inherent part of debate to attack someone's arguments. What's your definition of "reasonable"? There's no objective rules to logic or reason.
-1- wrote:What I am complaining about is that some people don't see their own mistakes when they are pointed out to them, and instead of acknowledging them, they call the critiquer out on being irrational and incomprehensible.
Well, if they cannot see the logic or the sense in the critique then what else would they say?
-1- wrote:What to do in such cases?
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Spiral Out wrote: Logic is subjective.
How DARE you to write that on a philosophy site? Logic is the ONLY thing in all human endeavour that is NOT subjective.

I am so angry reading this that I could blow up.

If you really think this, then in my opinion they should revoke not only your privileged status of whatever, but also your membership in this club.

"Logic is subjective." Now I've heard it all.

And please allow me to make you to get one thing straight: I am not being disrespectful. You are. To the entire field of philosophy.

If I get kicked out of this site because I left this very post, I will wear it as a badge of honour.
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Spiral Out:

Logic is subjective. What is logical to one may not be logical to another.
How DARE you to write that on a philosophy site? Logic is the ONLY thing in all human endeavour that is NOT subjective.

I am so angry reading this that I could blow up.
That would not be a logical response.

The formal structure of a logic is objective in so far as the rules are internally consistent, that is, anyone playing by the rules should reach the same conclusion, but we can construct different logics with different rules. The rules of logic do not exist in some Platonic realm.

On this forum and elsewhere we find individuals who claim that their arguments are logical and therefore anyone who disagrees with them is being illogical. That you are being logical and someone who disagrees with you is not may very well your subjective opinion. If philosophy were simply a matter of formal logic then we would logically expect its history to mirror that of mathematics.

There is another sense in which we might say that logic is subjective, or more precisely, that logic is not coextensive with reality. The claim that what is illogical is impossible is an epistemological claim, not an ontic fact. Our inability to conceive of something marks a limit to thought, and unless one holds along with Parmenides that thinking and being are the same, not a limit to what is or was or will be. This is the key to understanding Aristotle’s discussion of something coming from nothing.

Parmenides brings us logically to Hegel and his Science of Logic, but this is not the place to follow the dialectical movement of his logic and the overcoming of the distinction between objective and subjective logic or thinking and being.
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