A Critical-Thinking Tool To Help Us Make Good Decisions and Stay True In All Our Thinking
In making good decisions at work and at home, in judging people at work and at home, in learning abstract ideas, we need a process. …
Philosophy
Truth
Amidst and against those who lie, those who evade, and those who wish but do nothing, Wonder Woman says: “I’ve never wanted anything more. But …
Word vs. Meaning 2Jun2023
Words are a tool of thought, but not thought itself. And communication comes from learning the speaker’s mental content.
An Origin of the Concept ‘Freedom’
In the entry “Ama-gi” on Wikipedia, they write: “Ama-gi is a Sumerian word written 𒂼𒄄 ama-gi or 𒂼𒅈𒄄 ama-ar-gi. It has been translated as ‘freedom’, …
Aristotle vs. Plato
“If Plato’s prose was silver, Aristotle’s was a flowing river of gold.” –Cicero Context of quote from its source, the History Channel’s entry on Aristotle: …
My Teaching Philosophy
“Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think incisively and to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are …
ReasonRx Podcast Episode 63 Lies, Damned Lies — and Truth — About Statistics
Episode also available on many, many podcast apps, as well as free on Amazon and Audible. In this episode I discuss the great, classic article …
Nihilism
An unfortunate suffering on the part of some moderns and an unfortunate influence on our world. “Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless …