Hi dmb, Thanks for the quote. I guess you owe Marsha an apology, you think? Open up, things are not as you think they should be. Cheers, Mark
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:02 AM, david buchanan <[email protected]>wrote: > > A few notes on critical thinking skills: > http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2012/10/what-is-critical-thinking/ > "Perhaps the most common and dangerous of these is confirmation bias, the > tendency to seek out information in accordance with our previous views and > ignore or dismiss information contrary to those views." > > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:10:24 -0700 > > Subject: Re: [MD] belief > > > > > > > > Ham said:...Pirsig (the author) dearly wants to be identified with the > pragmatism of James and the logical positivists. > > > > dmb says: > > In both cases (for James and Pirsig), pragmatism is opposed to logical > positivism. Pragmatism is also opposed to absolute idealism, Cartesian > dualism, Platonism and vicious intellectualism. > > These are just philosophological categories but it really is quite > incorrect to say that Pirsig or James want to be identified as positivists. > Positivism is the epitome of SOM, the number one exemplar of "objective" > truth and scientific amorality. > > > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
