Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00729)

Jerry Schueler wrote:

>Tom:
>>Logic is not a matter of opinion.  It is not subject to whim.  It is 
>>simple to show who is being logical and who isn't. 

>This sounds like pure fundamentalism.  If true, then mental
>illness would not exist.  It is obvious from modern psychology
>that everyone has their own sense of what is logical and what
>is not.  I wish I had your cock-sureness where such things
>exist, but I am afraid that what seems logical to me, may be very
>illogical to you.  BTW, intuition is seldom logical, yet most
>theosophists seem to want to develop it anyway.

You are probably including premises in what you mean by logic, whereas I am
not.  Premises can only be established subjectively, by the intuition.
People disagree about their premises all the time.  But I would not
consider such disagreements to be about logic.  If I thought that Green Bay
was a better football team than Dallas, and that Dallas was better than New
England, assuming such comparisons can be made linearly, it would be a
straightforwardly logical conclusion that I would also think that Green Bay
was better than New England.  If you thought that New England was better
than Green Bay, our disagreement would not be about logic, but would have
been caused by our having different premises.