"healthy scepticism" is indeed a requirement of any worthwhile discourse. But of course it's neither the point, nor the whole of such discourse. Having cultivated a healthy scepticism, the point is constructive creativity towards new meaningful hypotheses. It's crude "scientism" to think the way to arrive at truth is falsification and critical thinking, that's simply a way to test potential truths. The easy bit.
Ian On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:24 PM, david <dmbucha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > "The study of philosophy cultivates a healthy scepticism about the moral > opinions, political arguments and economic reasonings with which we are daily > bombarded by ideologues, churchmen, politicians and economists. It teaches > one to detect ‘higher forms of nonsense’, to identify humbug, to weed out > hypocrisy, and to spot invalid reasoning. It curbs our taste for nonsense, > and gives us a nose for it instead. It teaches us not to rush to affirm or > deny assertions, but to raise questions about them. > Even more importantly, it teaches us to raise questions about questions, to > probe for their tacit assumptions and presuppositions, and to challenge these > when warranted. In this way it gives us a distance from passion-provoking > issues – a degree of detachment that is conducive to reason and > reasonableness." > > http://iainews.iai.tv/articles/why-study-philosophy-auid-289 > > > > > 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
