Damn what do you expect from a course on syllogisms and mill's methods that apathetic teenagers are forced to take. You think they should therefore be able to intelligently criticize articles in biology and mathematics or something?
Most “critical thinking” instruction is cargo-cult pedagogy. Critical thinking is largely what domain knowledge looks like while being used. You cannot teach students to reason deeply about subjects they barely know.
@justinskycak@eleanoir I taught a general ed critical thinking course and in my opinion it is fine for making students more self-aware about whether their reasoning conforms to certain generally accepted norms of deductive and inductive reasoning. Not sure what you mean by calling it a cargo cult?
Just tried my seventh therapist. During the 15 minute consult, I told her I was looking for someone who didn't make the session about themselves. She promised she would never do that.
First session, she's offended when I ask her not to talk about herself. I had to report this.
Incoherent nonsense. How can something that doesn't exist render something or do anything? Doesn't the existence of an observer imply the existence of a universe of some sort? Complete nonsense but hey I'm engaging with it
NASA physicist Thomas Campbell suggests the universe does not exist when you aren't looking.
It functions like a video game, rendering physical matter only when an observer requests the data.
@Parodyjeffx Be our guest, forget about your job and family and go get thrown in prison after getting your eyeball pulverized by a rubber bullet. The choice is clear, right?
Even if consciousness is familiar to us it doesn't follow that we can know the truth of the metaphysics of it. So sick of this decades old one note rhetoric Strawson has been harping on
@Shaktidass18@worldviewdesign I thought it was an excerpt from that book, but if you're just posting something from your blog, that's a little different