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If Philosophy Now was serious about philosophy they'd be drawing regularly from this forum for topics and authors.
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Huh? It's because they are that they don't.
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Huh? It's because they are that they don't.
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You're saying they host a philosophy forum that doesn't have philosophical value?
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No. I believe I have a reasonable grasp of what "value" means in this context, but I can't make sense of what the "philosophical" qualifier is doing there.

The forum has value; to me, to others, and to the magazine, I think.
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No. I believe I have a reasonable grasp of what "value" means in this context, but I can't make sense of what the "philosophical" qualifier is doing there.

The forum has value; to me, to others, and to the magazine, I think.
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If this forum is philsophically meaningful, why would they Not draw from it? You said that wouldn't be serious, which indicates this forum isn't a serious place to draw from.
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Again, I believe I have a reasonable grasp of what "meaningful" means in this context, but I can't make sense of what the "philosophical" qualifier is doing there.

The forum has value. That value doesn't adhere to everyone who posts here, nor to everything that is posted. A much higher standard is set for contributions to the magazine than is set for contributions to the forum.

I don't understand why this is proving so hard for you to reckon with, dude!
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Again, I believe I have a reasonable grasp of what "meaningful" means in this context, but I can't make sense of what the "philosophical" qualifier is doing there.

The forum has value. That value doesn't adhere to everyone who posts here, nor to everything that is posted. A much higher standard is set for contributions to the magazine than is set for contributions to the forum.

I don't understand why this is proving so hard for you to reckon with, dude!
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A much more academic standard is in no sense a higher one. In any case, i said to draw from, not to copy and paste as is. And there's the matter of finding people who can write good articles as well, not just drawing from things that have been said here.
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But I have said nothing about a more academic standard. It's like you are arguing with yourself. Whatever turns you on, I guess.
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But I have said nothing about a more academic standard. It's like you are arguing with yourself. Whatever turns you on, I guess.
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The only thing higher about the standards used to choose their posts is in an academic sense. Or more to the point, the "legitimacy" of the author, which is no standard at all.
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The only thing higher about the standards used to choose their posts is in an academic sense.

I can't even parse this sentence. I have no idea what it is trying to say.

If you were hoping to catch the eye of the magazine's talent scouts as an author with "legitimacy", I think you need to raise your game a bit, and I don't mean "raise" in an academic sense.
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[i][color=#005000]The only thing higher about the standards used to choose their posts is in an academic sense.[/color][/i]

I can't even parse this sentence. I have no idea what it is trying to say.

If you were hoping to catch the eye of the magazine's talent scouts as an author with "legitimacy", I think you need to raise your game a bit, and I don't mean "raise" in an academic sense.
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a) Academically, the authors and subjects that are choosen are "higher" than the average discourse here in their forums, but philosophically they are not higher. In other words, academic thought suffers from certain un-philosophical constraints.

b) I said nothing about myself, nor is legitimacy a valid criteria for higher thought. I'm a better thinker than most of their authors but a worse author than most of their thinkers.
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I'm a better thinker than most of their authors ...

Aaah, now I understand what this is about. Why not come out and say what you mean? : "If Philosophy Now was serious about philosophy they'd be seeking contributions from me."

My answer would still be same.
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[i][color=#005000]I'm a better thinker than most of their authors ...[/color][/i]

Aaah, now I understand what this is about. Why not come out and say what you mean? : "If Philosophy Now was serious about philosophy they'd be seeking contributions from me."

My answer would still be same.
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You first mentioned me, i didn't. If there is an ego problem here it isn't mine. Also you specifically took only the part of what i said that was most succeptible to negative interpretation, which encompasses several logical fallacies.
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Advocate wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:20 pm If Philosophy Now was serious about philosophy they'd be drawing regularly from this forum for topics and authors.
There are at least two authors from this forum that have had articles published in Philosophy Now magazine. Namely, uwot and myself.
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[quote=Advocate post_id=480914 time=1605975653 user_id=15238]
If Philosophy Now was serious about philosophy they'd be drawing regularly from this forum for topics and authors.
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There are at least two authors from this forum that have had articles published in Philosophy Now magazine. Namely, uwot and myself.
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Oh. Good.
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