[lit-ideas] Re: The Order of Aurality (ratification of fiction?)
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:38:55 -0500
I have a piano student like that -- "but that's the note I played!" --
"Look again at where your finger is" -- "It wasn't there a minute ago!"
And she's NOT two.
Julie Krueger
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:12 PM, John Wager <jwager@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Young children (about 2 or so) may be trusting in "the veracity of
> others," but they are also great liars! Both of my 2 year old grandchildren
> (one boy, one girl) have already learned that they can lie to my face and
> defend that lie and make up stuff to support that lie, and they have at
> least some hope that I will "bite" and accept what they say. "Is that your
> cookie or your sister's?" "It's mine!"
> . . . ."No, it's mine! She ate hers!" Me: "Hers was red; yours was blue;
> you're eating the red one." "No it's not; it's blue!" So why would anybody
> call children gullible? Because they think WE are so gullible?
>
> Eric Yost wrote:
>
>> . . .
>>
>> Thomas Reid, a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment, argued that
>> an original principle implanted in us: "is a
>> disposition to confide in the veracity of others and to believe what they
>> tell us.It is unlimited in children" . . . .
>>
>> Similarly, Wittgenstein claimed that: "A child learns there are reliable
>> and unreliable informants much later than it learns the facts which are
>> told it" (1969, sec. 143). The same emphasis on early credulity and the
>> absence of doubt can be found among contemporary psychologists and
>> biologists. Dan Gilbert, for example, proposes that: "Children are
>> especially credulous, especially gullible, especially prone toward
>> acceptance and belief" (p.111) and Richard Dawkins calls attention to the
>> alleged biological advantages of such credulity
>>
>>
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