> On May 30, 2014, at 5:53 AM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> > wrote: > > "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 > Ron: In order for hypothesis to be meaningful, conceptualization Must be skillful. It's a guid to Belief and action, you seem to be Saying that the whole point of discourse is to arrive at truth, The whole point is to arrive at Meaning, if you don't have the skills It's highly unlikely your hypothesis, No matter how creative, will have Any significant meaning.
"The National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking (a non-profit organisation based in the U.S.) defines critical thinking as the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action." >> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:24 PM, david <[email protected]> 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 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
