[lit-ideas] Re: If you had to do it all over again,

Then you would do it all again - because you had to; otherwise maybe not.

I think a suitable course in logic should be compulsory for students in both 
arts, sciences and humanities. Not 'philosophical logic' where this is really 
essentialist metaphysics dressed up as conceptual logic (e.g. 'consciousness' 
is essentially, irreducibly 'mental'; science is essentially, irreducibly 
'inductive' - and the denial of this only shows the person-in-denial doesn't 
know the meaning or grammar of the relevant terms). But 'logic' as a tool that 
underpins the analysis of the validity of arguments and even evidence (where 
evidence ultimately rests on argument and is used as a form of argument). That 
way we might increase the percentage of 'educated' people who can tell a good 
from a bad argument rather than increase the percentage of people whose 
education equips them better for impressive-looking obfuscation.


Donal


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