In my last episode, I talked about how understanding logic is extremely important when developing your writing. I talked about how we need to learn more academic logic because it can help us understand the world, and because we are able to understand the world, we will be better able to take those ideas and […]
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Debate is an important part of maintaining a society and developing new ideas. One of the reasons for going to school is run into conflict to develop ideas. Seth and I discuss debate, critical thinking, the Socratic method, and what the goal should be of any discussion where there is disagreement. If you enjoy this
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Abstract objects are ideas that exist within our mind that seem to need to exist in the world apart from people. Today, we talk about how that would work. Vince Jacobson guests and delves into the philosophy behind abstractions and why certain non-physical entities may need to exist apart from the temporal and physical world.
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One thing I believe vital for becoming better as a human and a society rests on a simple yet profound idea that I believe undergirds all the ideals that make a society function well. This is the idea of freedom of speech, an idea, though seen as innate, has not been the norm for the
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Language is deceptive by nature. Language is deceptive because it is imprecise and ambiguous, but we as humans are not often aware of this fact or it has slipped our minds (often we are merely too busy to worry about it). Because we are unaware of the deceptive nature of language, we take concepts behind
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I advocate logic not as part of good thinking but the foundation for good thinking. Without logic, one cannot think clearly.
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