I never said nor implied to accept everything I say Unquestioned. That is an obvious rhetorical device designed To negate and ignore anything I or anyone has to say about Anything at all. Not to mention it is an incredibly biased And closeminded position to take. Rather self serving. Directly contradictory to the attitude of critical thinking.
MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Greetings X-man, > >On Feb 2, 2013, at 11:51 AM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ron had said: >> The irony is that those who typically champion RMP as a relativist and >> Pyrrhonist were also championing >> critical thinking without seeing the difficulty of pairing those two ideas >> as highly incompatable with the >> act of critical thinking. >> >> >> Ron clarifies: >> I believe those that take RMP as promoting relativism and Pyrrhonism fall to >> Nomothetic Fallacy. >> They seem to believe naming the problem can bring such relief (relief of >> personal responsibility) >> in the end goal of attaining ataraxia in apatheia. >> >> Critical thinking however, is a way of deciding whether a claim is always >> true, sometimes true, >> partly true, or false. It connotes involving skillful judgment as to truth, >> merit, etc. >> Its focus is in learning and developing the habitual intention to be >> truth-seeking. It's end goal >> is excellence. > >The day I unquestioningly accept what you say, that is the day my critical >thinking skills should be doubted, and that includes your narrow self-serving >definition of critical thinking. And to your referring to skepticism, try >this: > >--- >also sceptic, 1580s, "member of an ancient Greek school that doubted the >possibility of real knowledge," from Frenchsceptique, from Latin scepticus, >from Greek skeptikos (plural Skeptikoi "the Skeptics"), literally "inquiring, >reflective," the name taken by the disciples of the Greek philosopher Pyrrho >(c.360-c.270 B.C.E.), from skeptesthai "to reflect, look, view" (seescope >(n.1)). The extended sense of "one with a doubting attitude" first recorded >1610s. The sk- spelling is an early 17c. Greek revival and is preferred in U.S. > >Skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches >as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. [Miguel de >Unamuno, "Essays and Soliloquies," 1924] > > >http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=skeptic&allowed_in_frame=0 > >--- > > > >Marsha > > >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
