Ron. Ian, I believe it is both, Ron. Somewhat analogous to DQ/SQ Both. It's not an either/or situation.
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Ron Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 > -- "finite players play within boundaries. Infinite players play *with* boundaries." 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
