RE: What is your Opinion on Having Required Classes in Logic in Schools?
July 27, 2015 at 3:57 am
(July 27, 2015 at 2:39 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm so obsessed with logic that I make shrines to it. But even I realized my reasoning was lacking certain heavy weaponry when I got into the serious business of counter-apologetics a couple of years ago. That's not cool. If I'm under armed, you can bet most people would benefit.
I'm not trying to be cruel, but some people seem to genuinely not be able to grasp certain logical fallacies. I feel like I might as well be talking in hieroglyphics. I can only guess that a life of using not-quite-right logic has made progress too difficult. This crap needs sorting out!
Honestly, I'm still learning fallacies. I'm able to spot them a mile away now, because of all the time I spent on here. I'm able to recognize some, but I don't know all of them by name yet. I love the way you have them laid out on your website, I've learned a few off of it.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-